This is John Bachelors. Here's a preview of my much longer conversation with my colleague,

Victor Davis Hanson, of the Hoover Institution, about the decline in troubles of the Stanford Law

School, representing the decline in troubles of all of the Stanford campus these last years.

Victor mourns what has been lost, a sense of striving, a sense of compassion, a sense of respect.

He also mentions Berkeley and Stanford, the two leaders of the California transformation for excellence in the 20th century.

Now witnessing a reversal. Here's Victor.

I think the administrators are terrified what they have brought.

They have created a sense on that campus that their main mission is not excellence in education or civic education,

or character building, but it's a the Jacobin revolution.

And these students getting the cue from the faculty and administrators feel that they're exempt.

It's a very strange combination, John, between elitism and Marxism.

When they yell at Judge Duncan, you could not even get into Stanford.

And I wanted to say to them, well, wait a minute, used to brag.

I couldn't pick up a paper without hearing that you had 95% 96% of your graduates pass the bar in the first try.

And you were so elite, but now this year, they have announced that 14% of Stanford students flunked the bar.

That's unheard of. 14% flunked the bar in their first try.

So they're not elite anymore.

And this is going to continue.

This dismantling of standards until the name Stanford will not be synonymous with the great Stanford.

We all remember that it really birthed the California 20th mid 20th century miracle, the university's research and science medicine professional schools, along with Berkeley.

Those two twin rival universities were globally singular and they helped northern California become what it was.

And now they're operating in reverse and they're helping California to evolve.

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