Episode 972: Congresswoman Elise Stefanik on “Poisoned Ivies”
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
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🗓️ 26 April 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Newt talks with Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (NY-21st), Chairwoman of the House Republican Leadership, about her new book, “Poisoned Ivies: The Inside Account of the Academic and Moral Rot at America’s Elite Universities.” They discuss how America’s elite universities, once proud symbols of academic excellence, have become centers of far-left indoctrination and division. Stefanik traces her own political and professional trajectory, from volunteering for the New York Republican State Committee at age 14 and ultimately running as a 28-year-old underdog who has become a long-serving New York Republican in Congress. Drawing on her experience as a Harvard alumna, Stefanik argues that many elite universities have shifted from liberal leaning but pluralistic to ideologically lopsided, with a dramatic imbalance between Democratic and Republican faculty and a growing culture of political indoctrination over academic rigor. Stefanik’s participation in the hearing with university presidents was a historic turning point in the national debate over higher education. She concludes by expressing her hope, both as a policymaker and as a parent, that this earthquake in public awareness will help restore American universities to global excellence.
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| 0:12.1 | I want to chat with you just for a minute about the upcoming California governor's race. |
| 0:16.5 | You know, when Congressman Swalwell had to resign from Congress and resigned from the race for governor, |
| 0:24.1 | he threw everything into turmoil. And the result is you now have a race in which there are |
| 0:30.5 | three Democrats splitting the vote on their side, two Republicans, and according to the latest Emerson poll, |
| 0:37.3 | the two Republicans are running ahead of |
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| 0:59.3 | delegate. In fact, somebody calculated he spent $3,753 for every vote he got in the primaries. |
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