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Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words

EXPOSED: Taxpayers Paying For Democrat Activists’ Grad School Tuition | Jennifer Kabbany and Jack Fowler

Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words

Jennifer Hayne

News Commentary, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Nearly 80% of Truman Scholars, a taxpayer-funded scholarship program, from 2017 and 2018 ”have a clear connection to liberal politics, such as working for Democratic members of Congress, advocating for progressive causes, or teaching classes with a liberal focus,” reports the College Fix.  Jennifer Kabbany, editor-in-chief of The College Fix joins Jack Fowler for an in-depth discussion on DEI programs, higher education challenges, and jaw-dropping campus stories. 👉America is worth preserving. Do your part and act now by going to https://www.heritage.org/beautiful  👉Tap water in the United States often contains a variety of harmful contaminants that pose significant health risks. Go to CovePure NOW and get $250 off the #1 water filtration system: https://CovePure.com/vdh    👉Claim your liberty offer of up to $5,000 in free metals with allegiance gold by going to https://www.ProtectWithVictor.com  👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest editions of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words” by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1    👉 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2iOoN0xoOoSNvDFlpLLYGY?si=5a9f369acc874c6e  👉 Apple Podcast:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/victor-davis-hanson-in-his-own-words/id1566731706  👉 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1  👉 Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/VictorDavisHansonInHisOwnWords?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v1_sa_o    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Decades worth of research that the college fix has conducted into the federally funded Truman Scholarships,

0:07.0

which have essentially become a taxpayer-funded pipeline for Democrat, liberal, progressive activists.

0:14.0

And we're basically paying for their grad school through this program.

0:18.0

The problem starts at the campuses because the professors are nominating

0:22.8

liberal students. Then there's regional committees and the regional committees again are made up

0:28.1

of primarily left-leaning advocates. And then it goes to the national folks in Washington,

0:34.9

D.C. We've been coming to them with our results every year for 10 years,

0:38.9

and they basically shrug their shoulders.

0:51.5

Well, hello, ladies and hello gentlemen.

0:54.6

Welcome to Victor Davis Hansen, in his own words, of course, without Victor Davis Hansen,

1:00.2

who is the Martin Nili Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and he's a senior contributor to The Daily Signal, which is the happy home of this podcast.

1:09.4

I was just, our guest is Jennifer Cabani, and I'm going to give you proper introduction

1:13.4

of her shortly, but this is the 27th of January.

1:19.4

We're close to five o'clock.

1:21.0

Actually, we are past five o'clock Eastern time.

1:23.6

And about an hour ago, I spoke to to Victor and he is progressing.

1:29.3

It's a slog, but he is progressing from his major surgery and he hopes to be back in the saddle here in a couple of weeks.

1:36.0

But in his absence, he's asked that this podcast continue under the criteria that I do the shows that I have important people on.

1:45.5

And Jennifer Cabani, you are an important person.

1:48.0

And I ask five questions in their sweet spot.

1:52.7

And your sweet spot is journalism related to college education, the college fix.

1:59.3

So let me read your bio here.

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