India, May 8 -- Secretary of Education Linda McMahon sent a sharply worded letter earlier this week to Harvard University President Alan Garber, informing him that the Ivy League institution would no longer be receiving billions in federal research grants. In the letter, McMahon criticized the university's handling of antisemitism on campus and accused it of "promoting race-based preferences in admissions and hiring."

"Receiving such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right," she wrote in the letter. "Yet instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these 'students' come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or eve...