My Advice for Ivy League Universities: Take the Trump Deal Before It’s Too Late | Victor Davis Hanson

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

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Does Harvard really want the Trump administration to air their dirty laundry? On Monday, Harvard University filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its withholding of $2 billion in federal grants, saying the action was “unlawful.” The Trump administration hasn’t budged on its list of demands, which include holding antisemitic student and facility accountable to abolishing DEI offices/practices. However, does Harvard really want all the information about their endowments, lack of intellectual diversity and due process, separate racial graduations, safe spaces and use of student loans made public? I doubt so, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words:” “If I were the presidents of these major universities, I would do this: I would make a deal with the Trump administration. And I would welcome it because then I would tell my radical students, "You can't wear a mask. I'd like you to, but the federal government won't let me." Or, "We can't have racially segregated dorms anymore, theme houses. I'd like to, but it's against the law." And that would be their way out. Is that going to happen? “I don't think so.” 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1… 👉If you can’t get enough of Victor Davis Hanson from The Daily Signal, subscribe to his official YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/victordavishanson7273… 👉He’s also the host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” available wherever you prefer to watch or listen. Links to the show and exclusive content are available on his website: https://victorhanson.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	We've talked about higher education before, but now it's come into sharper focus with the Trump administration's deadlock with Harvard University.
0:39.3	If they are dependent on federal funding, these big private marquee universities, Columbia,
0:44.3	Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Duke, and they want federal money.
0:48.3	I don't think it's a wise thing for them to get into a fight with the federal government.
0:53.3	The federal government is going
0:54.8	to ask for some transparency. And we the public really don't know much about it. It's like a rock
0:59.9	on a moist ground. You don't want to turn it over because there's going to be things underneath
1:04.0	there that would be better not to be seen. And that's what the public is going to learn about higher
1:08.3	education.
1:23.1	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.
1:47.6	We've talked about higher education before, but now it's come into sharper focus with the Trump administration's deadlock with Harvard University over its unwillingness or inability, whatever term we like to use, to meet the administration's demands that ensure an anti-Semitic free campus that does not allow people to disrupt classes.
1:55.1	It doesn't use race after the Supreme Court decision that went against Harvard and said that affirmative action was no longer legal.
1:58.7	Columbia had the same type of disagreement.
2:01.9	Other campuses are I don't think it's a wise thing for them to get into a fight with the federal government. If they are dependent on federal funding,
2:08.6	these big private marquee universities, Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Duke,
2:15.1	and they want federal money, then the federal government is going to ask for some transparency.
2:20.1	And we, the public, really don't know much about it.
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