Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now wherever

you listen to podcasts. This is John Bachelor. Conversation with Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution,

not only about the protests on college campuses such as Columbia University,

but also the presence of faculty members,

tenured faculty members,

associate professors, grown-ups.

What is it that they're protesting?

And Peter identifies a term of art that has become popular, settler colonialism.

What does that mean? Peter explains.

What does that leave us?

It leaves us the fact that what we're seeing on campus outdoors before cameras and

video around the world is what's taught in classrooms. Settler colonialism is a

definition and it's not positive for Uncle Sam. More of this later tonight.

I suspect that many of the faculty who show up at these demonstrations and the more sympathy for these

demonstrations are purveyors of one of the most fashionable ideologies of the moment on our campuses. It's in an ideology called

settler colonialism. It teaches that the United States is the greatest perpetrator of this crime, settler colonialism,

to transfer its populations in order to take over other countries.

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