Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal. I'm pleased to announce

that our winter issue will reach subscribers and hit newsstands in just a few weeks. You can stay

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Joining me on the show today is Ilya Shapiro.

Ilya is a senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute,

and he writes often for a city journal.

This work on legal issues and higher education has been featured in many popular and academic publications, including the Wall Street

Journal and the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. He's testified before Congress and

filed more than 500 briefs in the Supreme Court. He's the author of several books,

including Supreme Disorder, Judicial Nominations in the Politics of America's

Highest Court, and he is a forthcoming book that's going to look at the liberal takeover

of legal education in America.

Today, though, we're going to discuss an aspect of that.

Harvard President Claudine Gay's resignation, the controversies on campus there, the rise

of anti-Semitism in the university, and the state of intellectual inquiry in general at American

colleges. So, Ilya, thanks very much for coming on 10 blocks.

Great to be on this podcast, and I recently learned that its name refers to that it takes about 10 blocks

walking in Manhattan to listen to one. So hopefully someone is taking advantage of that,

and I'll try to be 50 in that regard. All right. Well, last week, as many people know,

Claudine Gay did indeed step down as president of Harvard University,

following the revelation several weeks earlier, that she had plagiarized portions of her doctoral

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