Tons of ultra-conservative colleges and universities for many decades have been refusing federal funding so that they can teach whatever ideology they choose to teach (check out Hillsdale College, for example). Why should Harvard be unallowed to choose the same pathway?

But not for debating in good faith. Like the Jean-Paul Sartre quote: "They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words."

Well, there is currently no budget for that department, so maybe you're onto something.

Nobody questioning the usefulness of X now that its an echo chamber for the far right.

Yep.
www.scribd.com/document/275...

As someone who left Twitter when it was still Twitter and it's current owner's purchase was approved, I can attest that joining BlueSky is like waking back up after an horrific dream to find out that all is right with the world.

Something called Magna Carta comes to mind here...