In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler examine the academic crisis, anti-family, anti-Semitic, anti-American universities, Khalil was an UNRWA worker, marginalized populations believe their own exemptions, taxing post-graduate programs, Chinese students, and Newsom’s podcast doesn’t help real problems in California.
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I cannot hear this podcast. it does not show a play button like the others. 🙁
At 60 I can look back at the goading of my parents to go to a “Good College” with a certain perspective. As a Asian American growing up in Los Angeles in the 1960’s-1980’s going to USC, UCLA, UC Berkeley or Stanford was not for a better education so much as for the bragging rights of my parents and a higher social status in their immediate and broader social circles. Confucian societies put a high premium on social hierarchy and at the top were the wealthy and well educated (Or notions of the Chinese Imperial Civil Service Exam that remained engrained in the old Mandarin, Yangban, Samurai administrative and Pechin descendants in the U.S.). But the work place tends to be the great equalizer, no one is willing to pay more money to someone with an Ivy League degree if they cannot do the work.
Regarding the Hackmans and not wishing even a wisp of mummification, a couple years ago we signed up with very reasonably priced monitoring service out of PA. Three missed text mails followed by a missed phone call mid-afternoon will generate a call to the local fuzz with front door combination for an inside wellness check.
I find your observations and analysis to be on the money. I would like to get your thoughts on the similarities of what’s happening these days and the German Red Army Faction of the 70s 80s and 90s. Who are the Baaders and Meinhofs of this terrorist movement? I doubt Soros. Also has ANTIFA gone underground. At risk of sounding McCarthyistic shouldn’t we be calling out the mot radical communist academics and professionals by name shining light on their culpability?
Professor Hanson, regarding your adventures in shopping in California.. Are you sure that they were not filming a remake of “Mad Max”????
You said that no one questions whether or not the Ivies of the 50’s and 60’s produced better educated people than today. I do. Outside of STEM, what did they produce? The State Department and the CIA; two global jokes. They produced people like McGeorge Bundy who overrode Arleigh Burke and the Joint Chiefs in eliminating two of three targets and reducing the number of sorties at the remaining target at the Bay of Pigs; thereby almost guaranteeing failure. The industrialists that FDR turned to in WW II were not Ivy League people.
Thank you Professor Hanson for this insightful commentary on University Education. Totally depressing!! How do you unsink a terminal sinking ship?
Hopefully, the entire country has not walked into this swamp. How do we rid ourselves of educators who are hell bent on societal self immolation?
The most famous split infinitive in the world:
“To boldly go where no man has gone before.”
Capt. James T. Kirk
I too noticed the mention of split infinitives in the podcast. Maybe those here who are able to better understand languages will take time to kindly help me.
The author of the website below presumes to boldy write that this is not a grammar rule in English. He says the idea that you cannot end English sentences with a preposition or split infinitives is based upon mistaken notions that Latin grammar rules be applied to English. This is something I had not been aware of. My desire is to correctly write, so I want to clearly know any rules I am unaware of.
https://theweek.com/articles/467053/7-bogus-grammar-errors-dont-need-worry-about