This is CBS, I on the World.

I'm John Baster.

Higher education and its discontents.

I welcome Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution,

writing his column for Rear Clear Politics,

based on an online conversation that happened

between distinguished members of the left side of the

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

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

I did not read this piece.

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

what this anxiety is all about.

It's Harvard, for heaven's sakes.

Peter, a very good evening to you.

This all began with the understanding

over many years, to my knowledge,

that the academic communities across America are pockets of progressivism.

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

That would be Austin, Texas, for example.

It's very blue.

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

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

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