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Harvard Salient Suspended Amid Controversial Nazi Rhetoric

10/31/2025

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The Harvard Salient, a conservative magazine at Harvard University, was suspended by its board after backlash to a September article echoing Nazi rhetoric.
The September piece was written by David F.X. Army, the author, and included "Germany belongs to the Germans" and "blood and soil."
Editor Richard Y. Rodgers defended it as a coherence piece, while board suspended the magazine pending review amid concerns about free speech and ethnonationalist ideologies.

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The Harvard Salient, a conservative magazine at Harvard University, was suspended by its board after backlash to a September article echoing Nazi rhetoric.
The September piece was written by David F.X. Army, the author, and included "Germany belongs to the Germans" and "blood and soil."
Editor Richard Y. Rodgers defended it as a coherence piece, while board suspended the magazine pending review amid concerns about free speech and ethnonationalist ideologies.