DAVID MARCUS: Transportation Secretary Duffy is right; Harvard just ain’t what it used to be

It was Woody Allen, in his 1977 gem of a movie "Annie Hall," who quipped, "Everything our parents said was good is bad, sunlight, red meat … college." And in the case of the once world-class Harvard University, truer words have rarely been uttered.

The transformation, in our lifetimes, of Harvard from a tower of intellectual excellence to a barnyard of progressive slop is why Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is right to urge his daughter away from this bastion of absurd wokeness.

Let’s face it, 30 years ago, when you heard the term "Harvard degree," you thought, "Oh, this must be a very smart person who has done all the reading." Today, sadly, when we hear Harvard degree, most of us think, "Oh, this is likely a wealthy, snot-nosed Marxist who can’t even be bothered to read Marx." SEAN DUFFY FACES FAMILY DILEMMA OVER EMBATTLED IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL AND CHRISTIAN VALUES And it isn’t just Harvard.

The entire Ivy League has become synonymous with liberal lunacy.

For example, is Columbia a university or a staging ground for jihadi sympathizers, or have the lackluster leaders there decided those are the same thing? Meanwhile, back at Harvard, which settled an antisemitism lawsuit last year, The New York Times reported on students not doing work but graduating anyway due to grade inflation.

HARVARD STUDENTS REVOLT OVER NEW GRADING POLICY THEY CALL ‘RACIST’ From the article: "Once they get in, many of its students skip class and fail to do the reading. … When they do show up for class, they are focused on their devices and are reluctant to speak out.

Sometimes it is because they are afraid of sharing ideas that others will disagree with.

But often, they have not read enough of the homework to make a meaningful contribution." Reading the classics? Not so much.

But Jew-hating? Absolutely! HARVARD PRESIDENT CALLS STUDENTS ‘IGNORANT’ ON ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT This is supposed to be the learning ground of presidents and statesmen, and now the students are refusing to read? They should change the motto from "Veritas" to "No Regrets." Much of this crisis in our top schools has been caused by diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) as rich kids of color are sneaked in through the side door to maintain the appearance of a Benetton ad.

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ZEROES IN ON UCLA FOR ALLEGED ILLEGAL DEI ADMISSIONS AS ELITE SCHOOL CRACKDOWN EXPANDS Everyone’s new favorite pencil-mustached communist, Gustavo Gordillo, is a great example of this.

Prior to his parents buying him a $1.5 million home in Brooklyn, Gustavo got a sculpture degree from Yale, but after that, somehow he couldn’t even make his way through a union electrician apprenticeship.

Mind you, this hasn’t stopped him from calling himself a union electrician.