Can it really be that Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) teaches nothing about the fundamental principles of liberty and individual rights (especially free speech) at the heart of America’s constitutional order, which would be subversive to any Chinese student? Are there any courses that even expose students—any students, not just foreign students—to, say, the Federalist Papers?
It is hard to tell from the KSG’s website. Although it does have a complete course list and faculty descriptions, it does not provide either the syllabus or reading list for any specific course, but I don’t see any likely candidates. To the contrary, what you see from the course offerings are two main things: lots of technical instruction on advanced econometrics, finance, advanced managerial theory, and other quantitative skills, and a lot of courses clearly anchored in contemporary progressive fetishes, such as—wait for it!—climate change (eight courses on the issue); social justice; a three-course sequence on inequality and social policy, because you can’t possibly understand inequality from just one course, even at Harvard, and fifty courses related to gender. KSG’s curriculum includes a total of 35 coursesrelated to “racism & bias.”
I can only spot maybe three KSG faculty who aren’t conventional liberals or deep leftists, and no real conservatives to speak of. I can’t see a single course where someone might read the Federalist Papers, or any kind of serious exposure to the thought of the founding era. Instead, you can take “DPI-348: Progressive Alternatives: Institutional Reconstruction Now,” by noted radical Roberto Mangabeira Unger. The course description reads, in part:
