Harvard University is reportedly considering a new center for conservative scholarship amid criticism from the Trump administration that the school has drifted too far to the Left.

The Ivy League school has mulled starting a program for conservative scholarship for several years, but now the idea is gaining momentum, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The center could cost as much as $1 billion, and Harvard has already discussed the idea with potential donors, the Journal reported.

A Harvard spokesman said the school is ramping up work to set up such a center.

The program would “promote and support viewpoint diversity” and “will ensure exposure to the broadest ranges of perspectives on issues, and will not be partisan, but rather will model the use of evidence-based, rigorous logic and a willingness to engage with opposing views,” Harvard’s spokesman told the outlet.

If it takes shape, Harvard’s new center could potentially be modeled after Stanford’s Hoover Institution, which promotes personal liberty and limited government and is nonpartisan but widely viewed as conservative. Ronald Reagan was the Hoover Institution’s first honorary fellow.

However, the Trump administration would not necessarily view a new center purportedly for conservative thought as a significant step, the Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the administration’s perspective.

Harvard leaders’ discussions about the potential center come amid a heated battle with the Trump administration over diversity, equity and inclusion practices as well as antisemitism.

In 2023, pro-Palestinian protests erupted on Harvard’s campus, sparking widespread backlash.

Harvard’s president at the time, Claudine Gay, was called to testify in front of Congress about the school’s response to antisemitism on campus. Her testimony was criticized after she hedged on saying whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated the university’s codes of conduct.

The Trump administration has pulled billions in federal funds from the school, threatened Harvard’s tax-exempt status, and moved to block the school from enrolling foreign students.

Harvard is suing, claiming the administration is violating its First Amendment rights and trying to “control Harvard’s governance, curriculum, and the ‘ideology’ of its faculty and students.”

This week, the administration also threatened Harvard’s accreditation, accusing the school of violating federal discrimination law by failing to protect Jewish students from antisemitic harassment.

If Harvard were to lose its accreditation, it would also lose access to federal student aid, typically an existential event for universities that leads to their shuttering.

Harvard’s accreditation is handled by the New England Commission of Higher Education, which is not controlled by the government, but Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent the commission a firm letter about the issue.

“By allowing anti-Semitic harassment and discrimination to persist unchecked on its campus, Harvard University has failed in its obligation to students, educators, and American taxpayers,” McMahon wrote.

She added that the Education Department expects the commission to keep the administration “fully informed of its efforts to ensure that Harvard is in compliance with federal law and accreditor standards.”

We’ve reached the point now where the entire leftist program is performative outrage.

Today’s example is the raid by ICE at a large marijuana farm in Southern California.

According to the New York Times: “Federal agents raided a large cannabis farm in Southern California on Thursday, clashing with protesters and arresting multiple people.”

That sounds like these are just normal people. “Yeah, sure, they’re illegal immigrants, but they’re picking the marijuana that America needs.”

But marijuana is damaging our country. If you don’t believe me, visit LA, visit Denver.

This pot farm was allegedly using illegal underage labor. It’s hard to think of a place more deserving of a federal law enforcement raid than a pot farm that is engaging in illegal underage labor.

The Left freaked out. Protesters showed up because they heard that ICE was showing up. At least one person showed up with a gun and fired at an ICE agent.

That person is no longer a “protester.” He’s now an attempted murderer.

But a video that went viral on social media was not the video of the so-called protester shooting a gun or the idiots who were attempting to stop an ICE vehicle using flagpoles.

It was children running from tear gas, which ICE used to disperse the crowds.

But when they say children were running away, they should point out that some of the children who were running away were presumably brought there as protesters, because if they were there as child labor, the parents should be in jail.

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It’s a violation of federal and state law to use your small children as child labor at a cannabis farm, we should point out.

But this caused Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, who desperately wants to run for President of the United States, to tweet, “Kids running from tear gas crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields. Trump calls me ‘Newscum’ — but he’s the real scum.”

Amazing performative outrage.

What are the children doing there in the first place? That should be the real question.

Why have leftists incentivized parents to bring small children to protest immigration raids at a cannabis farm employing underage labor? That’s question number one. Question number two: Is Newsom suggesting that kids are crying because mom is being taken away? The only person on tape I could see who was crying about this appeared to be a young man whose mom was taken away.

If you’re a legal immigrant, the administration is not going to arrest you. You have to violate the law in some way that calls for your deportation in order for them to pursue the arrest.

President Trump has mentioned the idea of providing some sort of temporary shield for illegal immigrant farmworkers and hospitality workers, or people working in hotels. He has insisted there will be no amnesty, but also suggested that some workers might be allowed to stay if their employers take responsibility for them.

The policy that the media claim Trump is pursuing is not the policy that he is pursuing.

But because the media are lying about the actual policy and because there are people on social media who are able to blow those lies up into full-fledged stories, you end up with violence against ICE agents, people showing up en masse to stop what are clearly legitimate law enforcement raids.

The performative outrage is the entire gambit for the Left.

It’s all performative outrage.