In case you are not keeping up with events on the Harvard campus, you should know that the graduate students and various other academic hangers-on at that elite institution have recently gone out “on strike.”  After all, nothing screams “oppression” of the proletariat like the suffering of a Harvard graduate student.  

Ira Stoll has a report at the Washington Free Beacon on November 9.  Excerpt:

The strike by Harvard graduate students that has disrupted teaching and learning on the campus is escalating as it stretches into its third week, with a second United Auto Workers union of Harvard "academic workers" poised to join the walkout.        

In case you are unfamiliar with the life of a Harvard graduate student, here is a page on “PhD Degree Funding” from the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin School of the Arts and Sciences.  (Yes, it’s the same Kenneth Griffin whose large penthouse condominium in Manhattan inspired our Mayor Mamdani to institute his “pied-á-terre” tax.  Griffin got the Harvard graduate school named for himself in return for a $300 million gift in 2023.). Here’s some of what the Harvard page on PhD Funding says about how that works at Harvard:

The Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Harvard Griffin GSAS) offers incoming PhD students a comprehensive package of financial support including tuition, health insurance fees, and basic living expenses. This support consists of a combination of tuition grants, stipends, traineeships, teaching fellowships, research assistantships, and other academic appointments.