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HARVARD: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? PETER BERKOWITZ, HOOVER,

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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HARVARD: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? PETER BERKOWITZ, HOOVER,

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0:00.0

This is CBS, I on the World.

0:06.0

I'm John Baster.

0:07.0

Higher education and its discontents.

0:11.1

I welcome Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution,

0:13.8

writing his column for Rear Clear Politics,

0:16.3

based on an online conversation that happened

0:19.1

between distinguished members of the left side of the

0:24.2

equation, Larry Summers, Ross Duthat, and Frank Bruney of the New York Times, titled,

0:32.1

Are We Past Peak Harvard? Three Writers', Higher Education's woes.

0:38.5

I did not read this piece.

0:39.9

Peter did, so he's here to help me understand

0:42.4

what this anxiety is all about.

0:45.5

It's Harvard, for heaven's sakes.

0:47.4

Peter, a very good evening to you.

0:48.7

This all began with the understanding

0:51.5

over many years, to my knowledge,

0:54.5

that the academic communities across America are pockets of progressivism.

1:01.2

And so you can look at a red state, and there's one blue patch.

1:04.9

That would be Austin, Texas, for example.

1:07.0

It's very blue.

1:09.1

And you can repeat that across the land reformed universities to the

1:16.2

coast, to the private, to the Ivy League. Everywhere, the academy is blue. And you just accept it

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