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Will Trump Destroy Elite Universities? | Glenn Loury & Rajiv Sethi | The Glenn Show
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Aug 8, 2025
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Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Order Glenn's new book, SELF-CENSORSHIP. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=self-censorship--9781509567409 Glenn Loury (Brown University, Self-Censorship) and Rajiv Sethi (Barnard and Columbia, Imperfect Information). Recorded August 1, 2025.
- 0:00Columbia’s $221 million-deal with the Trump administration
- 4:11Rajiv: The charges about antisemitism at Columbia are mostly pretextual
- 13:34How is Columbia’s resolution monitor going to assess merit in admissions?
- 25:31What really matters in college admissions?
- 29:47Why Brown’s agreement differs from Columbia’s
- 34:16Rajiv: If the Trump administration wants to destroy universities, it has the resources to do it
- 40:07Is Columbia’s Middle East Studies department cooked?
- 43:15Free speech is dying in universities and flourishing on podcasts (and Substack)
- 50:19Is a full-scale antisemitic backlash on the way?
- 55:25The question of genocide
- 59:45The Gaza War’s historical legacy
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