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I sat down with political scientist Kevin Wallsten to discuss his project building a new college ranking system from scratch. The standard metrics of acceptance rate, endowment size, and name recognition fail to address rising concerns about ideological bias and campus culture. With activism replacing the pursuit of truth throughout higher education, here’s what parents should know before sending their kids off to college.
We get into:
* Why University of Florida ranks #1 and Harvard lands at #37
* What the 68 variables in this new ranking system actually measure
* Why US News & World Report rankings almost never change, even as elite campuses melt down
* How faculty became activists, and why even tenured professors self-censor
* What DEI bureaucracies did to schools like the University of Michigan
* The three competing purposes of the university: personal development, job training, and politics
* Why universities are alienating the students they need most
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City Journal College Rankings: https://collegerankings.city-journal.org/rankings
https://media4.manhattan-institute.org/college-rankings/PDFs/CollegeRankings.pdf
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Outline:
[0:00] Universities have lost public trust
[6:59 7:12] What happened on campus in 2015?
[16:38] How universities became ideological
[24:33] What is the purpose of education?
[37:00] Should we think of college as career training?
[45:38] Campus politics is a status game
[53:51] The self-censorship tipping point
[1:07:40] Why don’t academics like debate?
[1:19:09] How academics view American society
[1:26:43] Has a diploma become a meaningless credential?
[1:35:29] How colleges stack up in 2026
[1:57:35] University governance is broken
[2:06:48] The tension between public funding and academic freedom
[2:19:23] Higher ed is about to drop off a demographic cliff
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Christopher Nolan's “The Odyssey” opened last weekend and sent Homer's 2,800-year-old poem back up the bestseller charts. It also became the most fought-over movie in recent memory, with accusations of woke casting and the "1619 Project” treatment of the Western canon.
I decided to see the movie opening weekend. Some of the criticism lands. Some of it falls apart the moment the film starts. The real question isn't only whether the movie stays faithful to Homer, but which version of the West we think we're fighting for.
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I sat down with bestselling author Eric Metaxas to discuss the Christian roots of America and what happens to our freedom if we forget them. His new book, “Revolution,” tells the story of the founding and the values that make America exceptional.
We get into:
* How the founders’ religious beliefs shaped the Revolution
* The paradox of freedom and faith
* Why the French Revolution ended in a bloodbath and ours didn’t
* The true role of slavery in the Declaration of Independence
* Why British elites despised the American colonists
* The role of populism in American history
* What it means to be an American, and how Mamdani fits into that picture
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Outline:
[0:00] Why is the U.S. the greatest nation in history?
[4:12] You can’t have liberty without Christian faith
[14:35] When did our culture take a wrong turn?
[18:57] We’re vulnerable to the enemies of liberty
[25:09] Can a theocracy be truly Christian?
[32:14] How religious liberty emerged in America
[35:34] Were the Founding Fathers hypocrites about slavery?
[40:21] British elites despised the Americans
[46:13] Healthy populism vs mob rule
[52:29] How popular was the American Revolution?
[57:46] What does it mean to be an American?
[1:02:43] Is Mamdani really an American?
[1:06:21] The collapse of American pride
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New York just became the first state to halt new AI data center construction. Bernie Sanders and AOC want to take that policy national, and 63% of Americans agree with them across party lines. This has become the one truly bipartisan issue in our politics, but bipartisan doesn't mean good.
The concerns range from energy costs to water use to noise pollution. Some concerns are legitimate, some have already been solved, and others are simply based on false information. For better or for worse, technological revolutions usually aren't reversible.
So what will the future of the American economy look like?
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I sat down with economic historian Phil Magness to give Karl Marx the fairest hearing we could, and then find out how his ideas took over half the world and most of modern academia.
We get into:
* The historical context of Karl Marx’s writings
* Why surplus value theory made intuitive sense and why it’s wrong
* How the iPhone launch disproves Marx’s labor theory of value
* The unlikely story of how Lenin and the Bolsheviks took over Russia
* Stalin, Trotsky, and the “real communism was never tried” folks
* How Soviet propaganda helped resurrect Marx in the West
* Why Marx is read in every academic field… except economics
* How to minimize cost and Marxist indoctrination in college
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Outline:
[0:00] The “best” of Karl Marx
[11:21] What was Marx’s actual vision?
[15:24] Socialism Before Marx
[24:50] Is “capitalism” a slur?
[28:54] What’s the moral argument for land ownership?
[35:23] Labor theory vs subjective value
[46:07] Why Marx was left behind
[52:53] Marx’s math doesn’t work
[1:01:10] Why did the Bolsheviks pick up Marx?
[1:09:49] How Lenin conquerors Russia
[1:20:29] Was Lenin “not as bad” as Stalin?
[1:23:30] What did Lenin actually think?
[1:27:41] “Real communism has never been tried”
[1:30:24] Why academia loves Marx
[1:49:16] Does socialism have anything to offer?
[1:56:28] Is Marxism a religion?
[2:09:38] Modern Marxism is just woke mad libs
[2:13:41] “Cracks in the Ivory Tower”
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