Donald Trump’s Vision for Higher Education

Pantsuit Politics

Sarah & Beth

Society & Culture, Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Vanessa Zoltan joins Beth to discuss the Trump administration's attacks on universities, specifically Harvard, and what that tells us about their priorities.

Topics Discussed:

The Trump Administration Comes for Harvard
Antisemitism and Campus Protests
Outside of Politics: What Happens and Guiding Art

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0:00.0	Lemonada.
0:02.7	This is Beth Silvers. You're listening to Pantsuit Politics.
0:16.7	Sarah is out today, and I am delighted to be joined by our dear friend Vanessa Zoltan.
0:21.9	Vanessa is one of my favorite people and thinkers and she joined me today for a very
0:27.5	broad discussion of higher education. The Trump administration has taken fast and furious
0:33.0	executive action concerning higher ed impacts all of us, even those of us who have no connection
0:39.5	to any college or university in a huge variety of ways. And Vanessa and I are going to dig into that.
0:46.2	She is such a wealth of insight and perspective. And I hope that you enjoy hearing from her as
0:51.5	much as I enjoyed talking with her. And then she sticks around for outside of politics to tell us about what matters, a program that she's created to help find
0:58.7	meaning in life through literature. We have a very fun discussion about characters as avatars for us as
1:05.1	kind of our personal guides and coaches and patron saints. So I can't wait for you to hear it.
1:09.5	Before we do that, I just want to say
1:11.3	congratulations to everyone. We have powered through May Semper and we are rounding the corner
1:16.5	into summer. We have lots planned for you. For our subscribers, we have our 30 days of meditation
1:21.5	starting next Thursday. Reimagining citizenship is the name of that series. We'll count down to
1:26.3	the 4th of July.
1:35.1	We have the Pantsuit Politics Film Club launching with women talking and 12 angry men. Our very own Norma is leading that. It's going to be so much fun.
1:41.5	We have the good news brief. We have more to say. We have Sarah and I sharing our spicy takes on bonus episodes.
1:44.6	So if you have not joined us in the Pantsuit Politics Premium Community over on Substack, we hope that you'll do that today. And then here, next Tuesday,
1:50.5	we will have our 1,000th episode with the one and only Jen Hatmaker. There would not be a
1:55.8	pantsuit politics without Jen Hatmaker's generous invitation to host Sarah and me on her
2:00.1	podcast many years ago.
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