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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

The Ivy League Exposes Itself

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.65.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Today we take up the prevarication and plain dishonesty of university presidents during the House committee hearing on campus anti-Semitism. One claims not to know about foreign funding and another doesn't think incitement to anti-Semitic violence is a conduct violation. For Harvard, UPenn, MIT, and others, this was a watershed moment. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hope for the best.

0:09.0

Expect the words.

0:11.0

Some bring champagne, some die of furs.

0:15.0

The way of knowing which way it's going.

0:19.0

Hope for the best expect the worst. Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.

0:26.6

Today is Wednesday, December 6, 2023.

0:29.2

I'm John Pothor.

0:30.0

It's the editor of Commentary with me with me as always executive editor

0:33.6

Abe Greenwall hi Abe

0:35.1

hi John

0:36.3

Washington commentary columnist and director of domestic policy studies at the

0:40.1

American Enterprise Institute Matthew Matthew Cottonetti,

0:42.6

Hi Matt,

0:43.4

Hi, John.

0:44.6

Senior editor Seth Mandel, hi Seth.

0:47.3

Hi Seth, I do, John.

0:48.6

Christine Rosen is out today.

0:52.2

Something is going viral that happened yesterday this hearing featuring

1:00.2

the presidents of Harvard, MIT and Penn,

1:05.8

trying to explain their behavior over the last two months

1:11.2

in relation to anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, and the threats posed to Jewish students by both.

1:22.2

And I have to say that I'm normally the dynamic of the house hearing almost always for 40 years since I started

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