Michael Velchik, the government lawyer, received both his undergraduate and law degree from Harvard. “[I]s it bad that my favorite class at harvard was nietzsche and my favorite book i’ve read this year is mein kampf?” Velchik wrote in the June 2013 email. Columbia and Brown reached sweeping settlements with the government to restore funding, but Harvard has so far chosen to challenge the administration in court. Latest in string of controversiesDespite the administration’s stated focus on countering antisemitism, it has largely ignored right-wing antisemitism. “Let’s assume for the sake of argument that Harvard has not covered itself in glory on the topic of antisemitism,” she said.