Harvard's Spineless Administrators vs. Chelsea Manning: Podcast

Reason editors talk single-payer health care, Rand Paul's push to deauthorize foreign wars, and Chelsea Manning vs. Harvard.

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Harvard's Spineless Administrators vs. Chelsea Manning: Podcast

Is Bernie's single-payer health care bill a serious threat? Whistleblower Chelsea Manning and murderess-cum-academic Michelle Jones aren't welcome at Harvard—does it matter?

On today's episode of the Reason Podcast, Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Matt Welch, and Andrew Heaton talk spineless university administrators, "Medicare for all," and Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) push for a floor vote to sunset the 2001 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force.

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[Mickey Rat]

Exactly what merit did Harvard inviting the perpetrator of a particularly stupid act of espionage have in the first place?

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[colorblindkid]

Chelsea Manning seems to be able to only communicate in grammar and punctuation-free emoji ridden tweets spewing absurd things like "no borders". There is no intellectual anything to gain from listening to her. She's a crazy person. That is the only reason I think she shouldn't have been invited to begin with, not the treason thing.

[Sports Reporter Charles Manson]

What do you mean "she"?

[wef]

That the emoji ninja Manning was in the position to do and supposedly was able to do so much damage tells you all you need to know about the intelligence and competence of the US government.

[Sports Reporter Charles Manson]

Harvard should hire Mr. Manning to handle all student records - what's the worst that could happen?

[Unicorn Abattoir]

He'll misread a cover 2 zone and throw and easy pick?

Oh, you mean Chelsea.

[Sudden]

He meant Bradley

[Memory Hole]

Did the CIA pressure Harvard to boot Manning and if so, then is that a violation of law? It seems like corruption to use a public office to pressure private employment contracts. In any event the head of the CIA should keep his mouth shut and his agency above reproach.

[Mickey Rat]

They had several other guest fellows who had been involved with US Intelligence services resign in protest over the Manning announcement.

[Episteme]

Especially given that Manning had nowhere near the normal credentials of a fellowship, having several other fellows resigned and other potential fellows noted their refusal to be involved in the program showed that this publicity stunt was hugely detrimental to the actual academic program involved.

[Entelechy]

Has it been offered a deanship at Bryn Mawr yet ?

[ThomasD]

Not butch enough.

[DRM]

"Whistleblower"? I thought that involved discovering wrongdoing and exposing it, not just randomly publishing whatever documents you could get your hands on without even reading therm first.

[Sports Reporter Charles Manson]

It depends on your definition of "whistle" and your definition of "blower."

[Dick Puller, Attorney at Law]

And people are shocked, shocked! that Nazis are getting popular again.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Everyone ignored Heaton's comment of eyesight-godhood. I think this is unfair.

[pxm]

Evidently top-victim status (so brave!) is enough to blind certain people to the rather crucial difference between what Snowden and Manning did, espionage conviction notwithstanding.

[Jacks]

There is no intellectual anything to gain from listening to her online dissertation help. She's a crazy person. That is the only reason I think she shouldn't have been invited to begin with, not the treason thing. Great work.

[JuanQPublic]

Chelsea Manning Harvard news is hardly as important as Paul's push to sunset the Constitutionally-contemptible policy from the post-9/11 hysteria period.