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🗓️ 30 March 2025
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In the wake of a crackdown by the Trump administration on universities with threats to withhold funding following protests on campuses, Manveen Rana talks to Times columnist and a self-described free speech absolutist and academic Sir Niall Ferguson.
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Guest: Sir Niall Ferguson, historian and Times columnist.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producers: Emily Webb and Edward Drummond.
Further reading: How DEI, cancel culture and bad boards are killing our universities
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0:39.5 | But when she walked out of his life, everything started to unravel. |
0:43.9 | 35 years later, everyone's acting like it never happened, and Gareth wants to understand why. |
0:50.4 | How about the truth? How about we do that first, and then we work out where we're going to go from there? |
0:54.6 | How about the truth? |
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1:10.5 | From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. |
1:15.0 | I'm Manvine Rana. |
1:19.8 | Even before he was vice president, J.D. Vance had stood in front of a conference of national |
1:28.7 | conservatism and declared the country had a new enemy. |
1:34.8 | I think if any of us want to do the things that we want to do for our country and for the people |
1:39.1 | who live in it, we have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country. |
1:49.0 | That attack is now underway. |
1:52.0 | The President said that all federal funding will be cut to schools, allowing, quote, illegal protests. |
1:57.0 | The Trump administration canceling $400 million worth of grants and contracts for Columbia University, |
2:04.1 | citing what they call consistent inaction in the face of, quote, persistent harassment of Jewish |
2:09.7 | students. |
2:10.7 | Meanwhile, running parallel to these investigations and threats, the Trump administration |
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