If Harvard was a conservative church instead of a university, Trump would defend its tax-exempt status to the death. Photo: Sophie Park/The New York Times/Redux The second Trump administration has launched an audacious assault on federal funding for universities. Under the very thin cover of a presidential executive order and wielding threats to freeze or terminate all federal dollars, a multi-agency “Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism” has been terrorizing selected high-profile outposts