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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Intellectual Corruption at U.S. Universities Comes Into Public View

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The moral equivocation by three university presidents before Congress about antisemitism has revealed a deeper problem of political conformity and illiberal values on campus. Are DEI policies part of the problem? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:35.0

The President and Chairman of the Board of the University of Pennsylvania resigned

0:41.0

over the weekend amid an uproar over last week's answers by three

0:44.8

college presidents at a congressional hearing on anti-Semitism. The

0:49.3

testimony and the outbreak of anti-Semitism on campus have triggered a new public awareness of the problems

0:55.8

of ideological conformity on American campuses, especially at elite schools.

1:01.8

Will it trigger changes that will make a difference?

1:05.9

Welcome, I'm Paul Gee Go with the Wall Street Journal editorial page, and I'm here with my

1:10.8

colleagues Colin Levy and Kim Strassal. Welcome to you both

1:15.2

graduates of American higher education and none the worst for it. I'm not quite sure that applies to me though I did get a BA as well but

1:26.0

let's listen to some of the testimony that triggered this political backlash.

1:31.6

Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard's rules of bullying and harassment?

1:37.0

Yes or no?

1:39.0

Anti-Semitic rhetoric.

1:41.0

And is it anti-Semitic rhetoric when it crosses into conduct that amounts to

1:47.2

bullying, harassment, intimidation, that is actionable conduct and we do take action.

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