We live in a time where trust has collapsed between the American people and very nearly every institution you can think to imagine.

The Boy Scouts, the Catholic Church, political parties, the American government.

Everywhere you look, there is wrongdoing, fraud, malfeasance.

Some of the most important institutions in the country have long been considered to be the most important

academic institutions. Harvard, Yale, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, Duke University,

the University of Chicago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley.

These names are famous around the world as centers of learning, institutions that made

the country strong. John Kennedy talked about this at one of his last major speeches at Amherst in the fall of 1963 while honoring the poet Robert Frost.

What President Kennedy said, what purpose is there for a university in an American society, if not for there to be a great national purpose attached

to it. These great institutions of learning that gave so much to the country have been

hijacked over the last generation.

And the testimony before Congress

of the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania

and Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is evidence of the fruits of that hijacking.

It was an ideological hijacking that became dogmatic and intolerant and nasty over the course of a generation,

America's elite universities stopped teaching, stopped challenging,

stopped making young people uncomfortable about their convictions and their ideas, and instead made them

into brittle citizens who require trigger warnings if they dare be exposed to an idea or a thought

that they disagree with.

These young men and women are unprepared for real life.

They are burdened by debt, forced on them by a greedy system, and they have had foisted

upon them an ideology that is evil at its core. When you see the twisted

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