Tom Morello’s alma mater, Harvard University, has recently been embroiled in a bit of a feud with President Donald Trump. After his administration’s attempt to block the university from enrolling international students, Harvard responded by suing the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department, and the Department of Justice.
No retreat baby, no surrender https://t.co/KFjhwoPcUU
— Tom Morello (@tmorello) May 27, 2025
For refusing to comply with their demands, the Department of Education also froze all federal grant funding to Harvard.
Now, during his performance at Boston Calling Music Festival this past weekend – which takes place at the Harvard Athletic Complex – Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello came out in support of the university.
While reminiscing about practicing guitar for hours every day in the stairwell of his Harvard dorm, Morello praised the university for announcing last week that they will be offering their course “We the People: Civic Engagement in a Constitutional Democracy” for free online to anyone interested in taking it.
Morello (who graduated from Harvard in 1986 with a B.A. in political science) explained that the course “covers basic U.S. government, understanding the Constitution, and how to recognize a dictatorship takeover of your country.”
After the show, the guitarist shared several photos of himself on campus wearing a Harvard sweatshirt with the caption saying, in part, that he had a “FANTASTIC day” at Boston Calling “supporting my alma mater Harvard’s resistance to Trump regime’s education bullying.”
