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The Ricochet Podcast

The Ivies Must Die

The Ricochet Podcast

Ricochet

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Just James, Peter and Rob this week to wade through the disaster that has become of American higher education. Naturally, the essential question arises: what do we do about these once-prestigious institutions? The Ricochet trio think it through.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Ask not what your country can do for you.

0:05.0

Ask what you can do for your country.

0:08.0

Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall. It's the Ricochet Podcast with Rob Long and Peter Robinson.

0:16.0

I'm James Lylex and today we tackle the question,

0:19.0

is it time for the Ivies to die. Last night what you thought Columbia University is open support for Hamas.

0:32.0

Holding signs, saying, okay. support for Hamas holding signs saying Elketsong Brigade your next target pointing

0:38.4

a Jewish student so here you have it.

0:42.2

America is a nation that can be So here you have it.

0:43.0

America is a nation that can be defined in a single word.

0:47.0

I was a foot him, excuse me.

0:51.0

Welcome, it's the Ricochet Podcast, number 689.

0:55.0

I'm James Lylex in drizzly, Minneapolis.

0:57.4

Rob Long is in Gotham and Peters in California and I guess in all three of these locations they're characterized by something

1:04.4

akin to discord on the campuses. Quite extraordinary what we've been seeing this

1:10.0

week. Quite extraordinary and I think the people who were saying well is it going to be great because

1:14.6

Trump's going to dominate the tree everybody's going to look at the Trump stuff. People are seeing

1:18.0

on display a segment of the left that well we've been seeing for years but really hasn't been this

1:25.5

emboldened this nasty in some time and it's not going to end soon it's going to

1:31.2

spill over into the convention and another zesty summer a love is coming up

1:34.8

guys looking at this what do you say I know of course that these people are not anti-Jewish at all

1:39.4

No, it's just a matter of being anti-Zionist a very very specific designation and distinction that we must

1:45.1

respect or not. Rob Peter? I'm a little, I know, it's a little late to keep saying that I'm shocked. I am still shocked. I am still shocked. I was in my office the other day, actually I was meeting somebody for a cup of coffee on the Stanford campus and in the background I heard a great racket and some music being played, brass instruments being played very badly, and that usually means it's

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