logo
episode-header-image
Jun 2025
20m 10s

Trump vs Harvard: India Impact

THE ECONOMIC TIMES
About this episode
tail spinning
Up next
Yesterday
India's Banks Under Cyberattack: How AI Is Changing the Game
India's rapidly expanding financial ecosystem faces a growing cybersecurity challenge. While large banks have invested heavily in protecting their systems, fintech companies and non-banking financial institutions remain vulnerable to increasingly sophisticated attacks. Artificial ... Show More
19m 19s
Nov 3
The Cancer Drug Price Trap
Why does a cancer injection bought by a hospital for ₹11,000 end up costing a patient ₹1.3 lakh? India’s drug pricing system is under scrutiny as the government caps trade margins on hundreds of cancer medicines at 30%. While prices of several drugs have fallen sharply, nearly on ... Show More
18m 47s
Nov 2
AI Agents Are Breaking the Internet’s Ad Model
When AI agents book your flights, buy your groceries and pick your hotels, no one is scrolling, and no one sees an ad. So how does the internet make money? Lightspeed India partners Harsha Kumar and Hemanth Mohapatra explain which purchases agents will take over and which will st ... Show More
36m 15s
Recommended Episodes
May 2025
Harvard Is Trying to Resist Trump. It Might Not Be Working.
<p>For Harvard students, this year’s graduation ceremony comes amid an intense standoff between one of America’s most prestigious universities and the United States government.</p><p>Michael S. Schmidt, an investigative reporter for The Times, explains how the conflict escalated ... Show More
28m 52s
Apr 2025
Trump vs. Harvard
First, we explore the standoff between the White House and America's wealthiest university. Billions of dollars are on the line, but Harvard says it's not budging. Plus, the Trump Administration says it does not have the power to bring back a man deported by accident. So what hap ... Show More
46m 12s
May 2025
Trump Threatens Wider Crackdowns On Universities
International Harvard students say they are experiencing “pure panic” amid the Trump administration’s move to bar foreign enrollment, as students from around the world told CNN they are coming to grips with the possibility of revoked visas, suspended research and being blocked fr ... Show More
45m 10s
May 2025
Swamp Notes: Trump takes on higher ed
Description: US President Donald Trump is in an ongoing standoff with America’s top universities. Harvard lost $2.3bn in federal funding after it refused to comply with the administration’s demands on admissions and diversity, equity and inclusion. Columbia complied with a simila ... Show More
20m 35s
May 2025
Ivy beleaguer: Harvard hung out to dry
<p>The Trump administration’s determination to bend higher-education institutions to its will seems to know no bounds—and nowhere is getting it worse than <a href="https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/05/08/harvard-has-more-problems-than-donald-trump?utm_campaign=a.io&utm ... Show More
25m 40s
May 2025
Trump vs. Harvard
The Trump Administration escalates its war against Harvard, barring the school from enrolling international students. Will other universities be next? Plus, we have new details on the man charged with gunning down two Israeli embassy staffers. And rapper Kid Cudi takes the stand ... Show More
45m 35s
May 2025
Ivy beleaguer: Harvard hung out to dry
The Trump administration’s determination to bend higher-education institutions to its will seems to know no bounds—and nowhere is getting it worse than Harvard University. The outcome of Poland’s presidential runoff matters far beyond its borders, now that it is a continental hea ... Show More
25m 40s
Apr 2025
Why Harvard is fighting back
Harvard is refusing to play along with the Trump administration's demands of elite universities, whereas at least 10 Florida public universities are openly cooperating with ICE. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Devan Schwartz, edited by Miranda Kennedy, fact checked ... Show More
25m 52s
Aug 2025
Degrees of freedom? Harvard’s shakedown dilemma
<p>Donald Trump’s mission to bend higher education to his will maintains its <a href="https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/07/30/what-donald-trump-is-teaching-harvard?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.an ... Show More
24m 44s
May 2025
Why is Donald Trump cracking down on international students?
Donald Trump's administration said it will revoke the visas of Chinese students studying at US universities. US embassies have also been instructed to pause new interviews. So, how much of this is politics? And what fallout could US universities suffer? In this episode: Clay Harm ... Show More
23m 42s