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325. The Downfall of the Ivy League | Victor Davis Hanson
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
The Ivy Leagues Built a Brand
The ivy leagues definitely built a brand in the u.s and that brand has tremendous value for a long time because of their high admission standards. Now they're adopting almost something like the commissar system where we have these intrusic diversity oaths which are not based on merit. It's kind of like the British army in the 19th century or late especially the late 18th century where you could buy a captain to see in fact right to be an officer you had to put up money. The irony was one of the reasons of the startling success of the Napoleonic system was that after the revolution they did have a meritocratic standard for office record.
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