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”
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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