Crushing The DEI Cult Will Take Time And Enforcement

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🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, William A. Jacobson, a Cornell Law School professor and founder of the Legal Insurrection Foundation, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss President Donald Trump's war on DEI in higher education and explain what level of enforcement is required to ensure the deeply-rooted ideology doesn't return.

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0:00.0	And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:21.2	I'm Matt Kittle's senior elections correspondent at The Federalist and your experience
0:25.8	Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.
0:28.8	As always, you can email the show at radio at thefederalist.com.
0:33.3	Follow us on X at FDRLST.
0:36.4	Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast and, of course,
0:40.0	to the premium version of our website as well. Our guest today is Cornell Law Professor
0:44.9	William Jacobson, founder of EqualProtect.org, a civil rights initiative devoted to the
0:52.6	fair treatment of all persons without regard to race or ethnicity.
0:57.9	It's a critical project and certainly relevant to what we plan to talk about today.
1:03.2	We discuss President Trump's new higher ed reform plan targeting the DEI cult on college campuses. Professor Jacobson, as always, it's a
1:13.8	pleasure. Thank you for joining us on the Federalist Radio Hour. Thank you for having me on.
1:18.7	Absolutely. This is basically what we're talking about. The president recently announced a sweeping
1:25.9	new plan to reform American higher education, pledging his
1:30.6	administration's commitment to rooting out what he called woke education policies that have been
1:37.8	corrupting college campuses across the country. That woke stuff is very much tied to the diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda.
1:48.2	It's not just an agenda.
1:49.6	It's a way of life on these college campuses.
1:52.5	Do you think that this latest move by the president will accomplish what he hopes it can do?
2:00.3	Well, it's a very difficult situation because the DEI culture, which is a culture that focuses not on individuals and not on individual rights, but on group identity issues, is so deeply, deeply embedded in the universities. I mean, I see it at Cornell myself,
2:21.4	that it's going to be very tough to get rid of. It has a quasi-religious feel to it. It is the reason
2:28.3	to be for a lot of administrators and a lot of professors. And it's going to be tough I think that his use of federal
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