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Victor Davis Hanson: Europe Lost 2 World Wars—and America Inherited Its Self-Hatred
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: “It seems to me that postmodernism or French philosophy instilled in my sons the notion of oppressed-oppressor. Rationality is… -
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AAU Sues to Block Federal Transparency on Foreign Funding of Universities
Foreign influence on university campuses in the U.S. is a serious threat to national security. In 2024, a congressional investigation exposed nearly $40 million in unreported research contracts between the Chinese Communist Party and two top U.S. research universities. To protect national security and provide greater transparency to the American people, the U.S. Senate should… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Hamas is a Complete Death Cult—Why Are Campuses Not Condemning Them?
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Well, Victor, let’s go to some campuses—two campuses. I’ll throw both stories out there and your take on them. They… -
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What Do College Students Really Think About Jane Doe and the Cornell 7? GW Students React
What happened in 2024 at Cornell University between an unnamed Jane Doe and seven Chi Phi fraternity brothers, now dubbed the Cornell 7, is morally wrong and disgusting every way you look at it. But is choosing to drink, consenting to sex, and regretting it afterwards enough to win in a court of law? The… -
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Higher Education Is Broken. Here’s a Better Way Forward.
Higher education is broken. Most Americans would agree with this fact. The problem is not simply about grossly expensive tuition rates and professors who ascribe to moral relativism and defame religion. Higher education is crumbling because it does not understand what true education is. Christian Halls International was formed in response to this brokenness and… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Cornell 7 Case is What You Get When You Play With Feminism
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: Let’s look at the Cornell 7 first. I know that this is a continuing saga, but recently we had… -
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New Online Portal Helps Students Pay Back Federal Loans
When students take out federal student loans, they are obligated to repay them. When a student defaults, it should never fall on the taxpayer to pick up the bill. The Trump administration is making a good-faith effort to help students repay defaulted loans more quickly and easily than ever before. Operating as a one-stop shop,… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Who’s Actually Guilty in the Cornell 7 Case
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. There’s been quite a controversy. It’s sweeping the country, maybe the world, about Cornell University, and I… -
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Trump Administration Turns Up Pressure on DEI Admissions at UCLA Law
This is the way to defeat systemic DEI racism. Don’t let up, don’t back down, keep up the pressure. The Trump administration has released another major finding exposing racial discrimination against white and Asian applicants at a top law school. This time, the Department of Justice is taking aim at the University of California, Los… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: ‘Inclusive’ Stanford University Caught Red-Handed Using AI to Race Swap Student
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Victor, let’s talk about—you ever heard of Stanford University, Victor? Victor Davis Hanson: I have some recollection of it. … -
Professor Censored Over Mock Land Acknowledgment Speaks Out Against University ‘Orthodoxy’ After Court Win
A Washington state computer science professor who won a First Amendment lawsuit against his university over its response to his mock land acknowledgement says the campus culture that fueled the controversy remains firmly entrenched. “It’s kind of scary. They broke the law. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the “9th Circuit said you broke the… -
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Trump’s Student Loan Rules Finally Hold Higher Education Accountable. The Left Is Furious.
The Trump administration put some reasonable limits on federal student loans, and the Left is having a fit about it. According to a Department of Education rule finalized in July, schools will now need to prove that their degrees are paying off for students to ensure that they remain eligible for federal funds. The rule… -
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Cornell’s University Reform Report Sidesteps the Real Reason Americans Have Lost Trust in Higher Education
Higher education is suffering through a self-inflicted crisis of declining public confidence. Only now are its faculty members and administrators starting to recognize that fact, but they collectively remain incapable of acknowledging the heart of the issue. That’s my take from a recently released report from Cornell University titled “Report of the Committee on the… -
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The Democrat Plan to Redistribute Wealth to the Wealthier
Two hypothetical college graduates who are married now have a combined annual income of $240,000; they each earn $120,000 per year. Should an American who graduated from high school but never went to college—and who now works as a delivery truck driver, earning $43,950 per year (the median annual earnings for that job) be forced… -
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University Takes Down LGBTQ Archive Webpage After Pushback From Texas Lawmaker
Following pushback from a Texas legislator, the University of North Texas has taken down its public-facing LGBTQ Archive page from the university library’s website. Last week, Republican state Rep. Brian Harrison highlighted that the university had an archival collection documenting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer history on its library website. According to the now-removed… -
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The New York Times Accidentally Revealed Why Higher Ed Won’t Get Rid of DEI
America’s top universities can’t quit and won’t quit DEI no matter how unpopular it is with the American people. A recent editorial in the New York Times titled “This California Educational Juggernaut Doesn’t Need the SAT,” highlighted the mentality that has led to the erosion of merit in our nation’s top schools and the flagging… -
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Watchdog Exposes Hidden Academic Pipeline Behind Left-Wing Election Litigation
Left-leaning law schools are directly affecting elections, according to a new study by a legal watchdog group. The Public Interest Legal Foundation released a new report Thursday titled “Dangerous Imbalance: Why Law Schools Graduate an Army of Activist Election Lawyers.” The report focuses on the disparity in election law course offerings and the overwhelming number… -
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Cruz Ensures Protections for Women in College Sports Act
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is leading the effort on a massive bipartisan bill to “protect, save, and preserve college sports in America.” While conservative groups formerly critiqued the bill for leaving a gap that would override state laws that ban men from competing in women’s sports, the authors changed the language of the bill to… -
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Georgia Tech Gets 3rd Place for Free Speech
Georgia Tech’s main campus placed third for free speech in a recent ranking released by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Out of the 261 schools surveyed, Georgia Tech’s main campus placed only behind the University of Chicago, which ranked first, and Claremont McKenna College, which ranked second. The report comes one year after… -
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Grad Schools Are Training Activists, Not Teachers
Who is teaching the teachers? Critical theorists, DEI peddlers, and all manner of indoctrinators who have weaponized the American education system to further their ideological and cultural goals. That’s my conclusion after reading a study released Wednesday by the American Enterprise Institute’s Daniel Buck. Buck reviewed the syllabi of many of America’s top graduate schools…