Will Harvard Continue to Lead the Charge? - Part 82

From the NY Times: The board of a conservative magazine at Harvard known for its muckraking suspended the publication on Sunday, citing the printing of “reprehensible, abusive and demeaning material.” The magazine, The Harvard Salient, which was founded during the Reagan era and revived four years ago after a decade-long absence, is editorially and financially independent from the university. The statement from the board, which is made up of conservative alumni, did not provide any detail about what incident prompted the review, but the publication had recently been embroiled in a controversy over an article that included a line similar to one in a Hitler speech.

The article, written by David F.X. Army, a Harvard student, in the magazine’s September edition, included the line, “Germany belongs to the Germans, France to the French, Britain to the British, America to the Americans.” The article argued that Europe’s native populations were being displaced by migration from Africa and Asia. In a January 1939 speech that Hitler delivered to the Reichstag, in which he predicted that another world war would lead to the annihilation of Jews in Europe, he said, “France to the French, England to the English, America to the Americans, and Germany to the Germans.”

In a separate article in The Harvard Salient, Richard Y. Rodgers, the magazine’s editor, said the similarity to the Hitler line was not intentional. He wrote that “neither the author nor the editors had recognized the resemblance and that the phrase long predates the Third Reich.” The Salient article by Mr. Army also argued for values rooted in “blood, soil, language, and love of one’s own.”

“Blood and soil” was a nationalist phrase used extensively by the Nazis...

Full story at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/us/harvard-salient-hitler-suspended-magazine.html.

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From the Harvard Crimson: Harvard Salient editor-in-chief Richard Y. Rodgers ’28 announced on Tuesday that the conservative student magazine would remain active despite a Sunday statement from its board of directors suspending its operations pending a conduct investigation. Rodgers wrote in an email to the Salient’s mailing list that the board’s decision to temporarily halt its operations was “an unauthorized usurpation of power by a small number of individuals acting outside the bounds of their authority.” ...

Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/29/salient-to-disregard-suspension/.