This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Monday, December 3rd. I'm Rob Bluey,

editor-in-chief. And I'm Jenny Maltubano. Our prayers go out to the Bush family following the death of former

President George H.W. Bush. You can follow all of our coverage at Daily Signal.com.

On today's show we're talking about Civics.

We'll feature an interview with Paul Kerese,

founding director of the School of Civic and Economic

Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University.

We'll also share your letters and we share a good news story coming out of the heartbreaking

wildfires in California.

But first, we'll hear from Manhattan Institute fellow Heather McDonald about what's wrong

with college campuses today.

From the moment students step foot on a college campus today, they are surrounded by a preposterous ideology that tells them to think of themselves

as either the oppressed, which is a highly prestigious position to be in, or the oppressor. They are taught to think that if

you're in the oppressed category on a college campus, you're actually told that

you're an existential threat from circumambient racism and sexism. This is ludicrous, but it has

produced outbreaks of model and victimology that are really quite difficult to take.

Things like students at Brown University occupying the President's

office saying that they shouldn't be expected to fulfill such normal

academic expectations as going to class because they said we're quote

trying to stay alive at Brown at Yale University students mobbed and cursed at a

highly respected sociologist for three hours in the course of which one student shouted out

Were dying apparently the status of being a highly privileged Yale minority student.

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