Hello and welcome to another episode of the City Journal podcast. My name is Rafael Menguels,

Senior Fellow and Contributing Editor at City Journal and your guest host for the day.

And I am joined by a great panel of brilliant colleagues, as always.

We've got John Ketchum, head of all things, cities at the Manhattan Institute.

We've got Neatoo Arnold, all things education at the Manhattan Institute.

And we've got Jesse Arm, all things, external affairs at the Manhattan Institute.

Hope you all had a great weekend.

Thank you for joining me.

Thanks, Ralph.

So we've got some fun topics to talk about today, and I want to start with some interesting

developments in the higher ed space. Interesting news over the weekend. We saw stories that Harvard

University of all places is considering standing up a center on conservative scholarship.

Not exactly what I expected to see out of Harvard University, given its recent dealings with

the Trump administration and its vowed to fight it.

But we also saw the University of Pennsylvania recently announced that it was stripping

all swimming titles from transgender swimmer Leah Thomas and indicating that it would from this point forward use biological sex to determine participation in women's sports.

That seems to be another big win for the Trump administration on university campuses.

And so the question I have, and I'll start with you need to, is, I mean,

do we think that what we're seeing here is a trump effect on university campuses? Is this something

that we can thank our president for? Well, I think getting universities to admit that they were

wrong and to rescind prior practices and even admit that conservative views are not well represented on campus is a big deal.

And so I think that is due to the Trump administration's mounting pressure on these universities.

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