American Universities, Two Years After October 7
City Journal Audio
Manhattan Institute
4.7 • 656 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
What does a university's response to terror reveal about its values and its influence on society? On the two-year anniversary of Hamas's October 7 attacks on Israel, Stu Smith, Neetu Arnold, Adam Lehodey, and Rafael Mangual reflect on national and global reactions to the attacks, especially on American university campuses. Their conversation explores the ideological influence of faculty and campus activism that blurred the line between academic freedom and lawlessness. They also consider how federal funding and institutional incentives shape university behavior.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the City Journal podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | My name is Rafael Mangual. |
| 0:14.2 | I'll be your host for today. |
| 0:15.5 | And I am joined my my brilliant Manhattan Institute colleagues. |
| 0:18.7 | We have Adam Lohde, Stu Smith, and Nitu Arnold. |
| 0:22.5 | Welcome to the show, guys. |
| 0:24.5 | How was everyone's weekend? |
| 0:25.5 | I hope it was as relaxing as mine was, although my Yankees lost two games. |
| 0:30.4 | So I'm coming into this Monday, very disappointed and depressed. |
| 0:35.1 | Well, I really appreciate you guys joining me for this discussion. |
| 0:38.6 | I'm really looking forward to it. |
| 0:40.4 | For those of you who are just watching us now, we are recording this on October 6, |
| 0:44.9 | which means that tomorrow is October 7th, the anniversary of the heinous attacks on Israel |
| 0:52.0 | by Hamas, which took the lives of over 1,200 victims, many of them |
| 0:58.8 | unarmed men, women, and children. And, you know, I think that it's fair to say, you know, |
| 1:05.1 | a couple years out from that, that that really just totally changed the course of not just |
| 1:10.2 | Israel's history, but I also think changed the |
| 1:13.3 | course of life here in America. And, you know, I was hoping that we can all have a conversation |
| 1:18.5 | about that. Um, you know, when I think about, you know, what happened on October 7th, before I even |
| 1:24.0 | had time to process it, there were already demonstrations taking place here in New York City on October 8th in Times Square, a demonstration, which, by the way, was hosted by the New York City DSA, which I think we can, I hope we can get into. |
| 1:39.4 | And for, you know, DSA, for those who don't know, is Democratic Socialist America, which is the party of New York |
| 1:45.2 | City's leading mayoral candidate, Zoran Mamdani. So I want to just kind of go around a little bit |
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