Harvard University has been at the forefront of President Donald Trump‘s efforts to curtail antisemitism in higher education. The Ivy League institution has pushed back against these efforts more than other schools have,

The administration has frozen funding and targeted international students as it presses the university for a stronger response to alleged antisemitism.

The larger legal battle between Harvard and the Trump administration could raise questions of retaliation versus executive authority.

Friday on the RealClearPolitics radio show -- weeknights at 6:00 p.m. on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124 and then on Apple, Spotify, and here on our website -- Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon, and Andrew Walworth start the show with the dinner President Trump hosted last night for owners of his branded cryptocurrency.

Harvard and the federal government are locked in a battle that boils down to turning over records on international students. But Harvard says it is also about the First Amendment.

For students around the world, an acceptance letter to Harvard University has represented the pinnacle of achievement.

An attempt to bar the school from hosting international students is just the latest escalation of an ongoing back-and-forth over Harvard's ideological future.