On Tuesday’s edition of The Record on Newsmax TV, Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz didn’t hold back. He pointed a sharp finger at elite institutions like Harvard Law School, blaming them for churning out politically driven leaders who prioritize winning over principle.
“They don’t teach morality, neutrality, or principle anymore,” Dershowitz told host Greta Van Susteren. “It’s all about who wins today.”
Dershowitz, who spent decades at Harvard, said this kind of education system is why we now have politicians like Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD)—individuals he directly linked to his own former classrooms. Schiff and Raskin were his students. Warren, he said, was his colleague.
Van Susteren highlighted past Democratic efforts to pack the Supreme Court—a move that could have backfired had President Trump gotten the opportunity to expand the court himself. Dershowitz responded bluntly.
“It just shows you how short-sighted and partisan they are,” he said. “They don’t think about principles or long-term consequences. They want what they want right now. And if we start packing the court, it’ll never end.”
The conversation turned back to Schiff, with Van Susteren noting his dishonest role in pushing the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. Dershowitz chuckled, then said, “It’s all Harvard’s fault.”
He didn’t mean it lightly.
“These are my former students,” he said with a sigh. “When you raise a generation of legal minds to think winning matters more than what’s right, this is what you get. Our country isn’t led by Jeffersons or Madisons anymore. We’re being run by short-term thinkers with no regard for principle.”
And in the end, Dershowitz made one thing very clear: The American people are the ones paying the price.
