Universities in the Hot Seat, Biden “Seizes” Drug Patents, Banning Hedge Funds from Housing

Lost Debate

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🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Harvard, MIT, and UPenn’s presidents testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce last week, and the controversy over their statements regarding antisemitism on campuses has already led to UPenn president Liz Magill’s ouster. As calls intensify for Claudine Gay (Harvard) and Sally Kornbluth (MIT) to resign, Ravi and Rikki parse through the outrage over the hearings and assess the state of antisemitism on today’s college campuses. Corporate investors have flooded the housing market in the past couple of years, but a sweeping new bill could halt Wall Street’s push into the single-family housing market. Is this a win for the progressive left, or will it end up harming more low-income families? Lastly, the Biden administration announced its plan to seize the patents of costly medications from Big Pharma. Ravi and Rikki debate whether this new push to cut high drug prices is a good idea and if the administration has the legal standing to make this happen. Leave us a voicemail with your thoughts on the show! 321-200-0570 Subscribe to our feed on Spotify: http://bitly.ws/zC9K Subscribe to our Substack: https://thelostdebate.substack.com/ Follow The Branch on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebranchmedia/ Follow The Branch on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebranchmedia Follow The Branch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebranchmedia The Branch website: http://thebranchmedia.org/ Lost Debate is also available on the following platforms: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lost-debate/id1591300785 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vTERJNTc1ODE3Mzk3Nw Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-lost-debate iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-lost-debate-88330217/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/752ca262-2801-466d-9654-2024de72bd1f/the-lost-debate

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Wast Debate, a show for politically eclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta. And I'm Riki Schlaught.
0:05.4	Well, Ricky, today we're going to talk about how elite university presidents are under fire for some controversial testimony in front of the U.S. House. We'll examine that fallout.
0:14.8	Then Democratic lawmakers are proposed a bill forcing hedge funds and private equity funds to divest from their ownership
0:21.9	in single family homes.
0:23.7	We'll discuss whether that's a good idea.
0:25.8	And then finally, Biden is gearing up to seize some drug patents.
0:30.6	And we're going to decide, like, is this an election year political pandering stunt or is
0:35.9	it sound populist policy? of that and more i could not have
0:42.3	better timed the imminent like self-detonation of the elite ivy league colleges at exactly this
0:51.5	point in time that we're talking about free speech and cancel culture in our book. So that was pretty fortuitous in that sense. They've just cratered in
0:59.4	their credibility recently. But the most shocking testimony that I think I've probably seen in
1:04.7	Capitol Hill in a while is seeing Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard, Liz McGill, the president of
1:09.3	UPenn, and also the MIT president who last week were brought forth in front of the House of House Committee on the workforce and education about anti-Semitism on campus. And since then, the UPenn
1:21.8	president, Liz McGill, has resigned, but Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard, is remaining in her position and has not
1:29.9	been removed. And meanwhile, the Department of Education is investigating both those schools. I don't
1:36.0	think they're also investigating MIT, but definitely UPN and Harvard for Title VI discrimination
1:41.5	violations, as 73% of current college students say that they've seen or been the target of anti-Semitism since October 7th.
1:50.0	And the exchange between Elise Stefonic and the Penn President, Liz McGill, was pretty fiery and I think just worth a listen here.
1:59.6	If the speech turns into conduct, it can be harassment.
2:02.6	Yes.
2:03.6	I am asking specifically calling for the genocide of Jews.
2:07.6	Does that constitute bullying or harassment?
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