Sean Duffy Puts Harvard and Daughter on Notice

Sean Duffy Explains Why Harvard Isn’t an Option for His Daughter

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy lit up the internet after a Department of Transportation sponsored YouTube series, “The Great American Roadtrip,” showed a family talk that many parents will recognize.

Duffy and his daughter Paloma were discussing college plans when she said she would love to attend Harvard University because of its famous academic reputation and her belief that she would get the best education there.

Duffy asked her if she would push him and her mother to let her go if she were accepted, and Paloma said she probably would, adding that if she got in, she felt they “can’t say no.”

That is when Dad delivered the line that sent the elite-school fan club reaching for the smelling salts: “Well, me and mom can say no.”

His point was that he wanted her to arrive at her beliefs honestly, not be force-fed one political lane by a campus culture that conservatives have long seen as far more interested in activism than open debate.

He said the problem is that “they are so good at it,” adding that people can come from a conservative school and a conservative family, only to get “converted and contorted.”

That line hit home for a lot of parents who have watched colleges sell themselves as temples of learning while too often acting like ideological car washes, where students go in with a full set of values and come out polished in the approved shade of progressive gray.

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