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Rajiv Sethi – The Trump-Led Upheaval at Columbia


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0:36 How Rajiv saw Trump’s assault on elite higher ed coming

4:26 The Trump administration’s legitimate complaints against higher ed

9:41 Rajiv: The crackdown on campus protest would have happened even without the October 7 protest

17:10 How test scores can marry merit and diversity on college campuses

21:06 Glenn: Doesn’t SFFA v. Harvard justify JD Vance’s criticisms of higher ed?

25:30 Columbia’s capitulation to the Trump administration

33:06 Columbia’s new measures against antisemitism

38:09 The opportunistic adoption of contested phrases

43:27 How bad is the antisemitism problem at Barnard and Columbia?

50:44 Who has the authority to police Columbia’s MESAAS scholars?

1:00:55 Facing the prospect of Trump-generated American brain drain

Recorded March 23, 2025

Links and Readings

Rajiv’s Substack, Imperfect Information

Rajiv’s post April 2024 post, “Minority Report”

FIRE’s 2024 Faculty Survey

Rajiv’s post, “The Lion Hath Roared”

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s “Working Definition of Antisemitism”

Eli Lake’s X post questioning the attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil

Preorder Glenn’s book, Self-Censorship

Noam Dworman moderates a debate between Eli Lake and Norman Finkelstein

Lex Friedman hosts a debate between Norman Finkelstein, Mouin Rabbani, Benny Morris, and Destiny

Dworman interviews Rashid Khalidi

Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Mari Matsuda’s Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment

Killer Mike’s 2024 FIRE keynote



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