VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Trump’s Campus Crackdown is Long Overdue

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

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Victor Davis Hanson explores the growing backlash—and the serious financial and legal levers the government could use to hold these schools accountable—on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “ [Universities] predicated their budgets on federal monies. But the Trump administration says, 'You're not obeying the First or the Fourth or Fifth or Sixth Amendments. You're not guaranteeing the Bill of Rights to your own students. You're allowing antisemitism in the year 2025 as if it's the 19th century or something. What are you doing?' And the universities seem to ignore it." 0:00 Introduction: Trump Administration's Stance on Universities 0:59 Antisemitic Protests and University Responses 2:44 Public Perception and Political Leanings of Universities 4:18 Financial Dependencies and Foreign Influence 5:09 Government Actions and Potential Consequences 6:42 Conclusion 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1… 👉If you can’t get enough of Victor Davis Hanson from The Daily Signal, subscribe to his official YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/victordavishanson7273… 👉He’s also the host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” available wherever you prefer to watch or listen. Links to the show and exclusive content are available on his website: https://victorhanson.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,
0:05.0	who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.
0:10.0	Hello!
0:11.0	To him, this is the best sound in the world.
0:13.0	Daddy!
0:14.0	Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all. Now that's term time working.
0:23.6	Offered at Amazon.
0:24.6	10 weeks off guaranteed per year.
0:26.6	Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off.
0:28.6	Conditions apply.
0:29.6	When the Trump administration came into power, they said, my gosh, these universities are
0:33.6	bastions supposedly of civil discourse, civil rights, but they're abusing these privileges.
0:39.5	And we're not going to fund $400 million unless they concede to certain protections of their own students.
0:46.7	What am I getting at? The Trump administration wants to call them to account.
0:50.9	And they have a lot of levers that the universities apparently don't seem to take seriously. They're dependent on millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars
0:59.0	of federal money. Why I don't know? Because they have multi-billion dollar endowments. But nonetheless,
1:04.0	you're not obeying the first or the fourth or fifth or six amendments. You're not guaranteeing
1:09.0	the Bill of Rights to your own student.
1:16.1	You're allowing anti-Semitism in the year 2025, as if it's the 19th century or something.
1:17.3	What are you doing? Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hanson for the Daily Signal.
1:33.0	I'd like to talk a little bit today about the universities in general, and specifically
1:38.9	the anti-Semitic protests that have been transpiring and continuing and the Trump reaction
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