Is There Any Hope Left for ACADEMIA?

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4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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After four generations of falling standards of education and increasing levels of political indoctrination, a report from Yale University suggests that this might pose a problem at some point in the future. Do the dinosaurs not understand that the asteroid has already struck?

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0:00.0	How about some encouraging news from academia? No, really. I'm Scott out with Bill Whittle and Stephen
0:06.0	Green in this episode of Right Angles, brought to you by the members at Bill Whittle.com. And gentlemen,
0:10.2	there's a column by Brett Stevens in the New York Times talking about a new report that was released
0:14.6	by a committee of professors, believe it or not, at Yale University.
0:21.6	And let me just read you a couple of segments of this.
0:24.6	And basically, I just want to get your reaction.
0:28.6	Now, for spoilers here, Brett Stevens is not universally excited
0:35.6	about what's going on here, but mildly encouraged.
0:39.3	And I thought we could all use a little encouragement.
0:42.3	Stephen Green, this was a committee that was established
0:45.3	about a year ago by Yale's president, Maury McKinnis,
0:48.3	who I've never heard of in my life.
0:50.3	It was created in response, believe it or not,
0:52.3	to a collapse of public trust in higher education.
0:56.5	And it says that for the most part the standard conservative indictment of modern academia is what this report is all about.
1:05.7	The committee's verdict is that at Yale, Steve, registered Democrats outnumber Republicans 36 to 1 across the faculty
1:15.6	of arts and sciences, the law school, and the school of management. The percentage of undergraduates
1:20.6	who do not feel comfortable expressing their political beliefs on campus nearly doubled in the
1:25.6	last 10 years, and grades are now effectively meaningless in 2022 and 23.
1:32.8	79% of grades given to Yale undergraduates were A or A minus up from 10% in 1963.
1:42.3	10% did I hear that correctly?
1:45.0	Yeah.
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