Rajiv Sethi – Will Trump Destroy Elite Universities?

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0:00 Columbia’s $221 million-deal with the Trump administration

4:11 Rajiv: The charges about antisemitism at Columbia are mostly pretextual

13:34 How is Columbia’s resolution monitor going to assess merit in admissions?

25:31 What really matters in college admissions?

29:47 Why Brown’s agreement differs from Columbia’s

34:16 Rajiv: If the Trump administration wants to destroy universities, it has the resources to do it

40:07 Is Columbia’s Middle East Studies department cooked?

43:15 Free speech is dying in universities and flourishing on podcasts (and Substack)

50:19 Is a full-scale antisemitic backlash on the way?

55:25 The question of genocide

59:45 The Gaza War’s historical legacy

Recorded August 1, 2025

Links and Readings

Rajiv’s post, “The Columbia Deal” at Imperfect Information

Rashid Khalidi’s open letter announcing the withdrawal of his course

Khalidi’s book The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017

Roland Fryer’s WSJ piece, “DEI Is Worth Saving from Its Excesses”

Glenn’s new book, Self-Censorship

Colin Wright’s WSJ piece, “Cornell University Discriminated against Me”

Dave Smith and Douglas Murray on the Joe Rogan Experience

Green Beret vet Tony Aguilar on the Tucker Carlson Show

Israeli journalist Emmanuelle Elbaz-Phelps speaks with The Daily about starvation in Gaza

Avi Shlaim’s book, Genocide in Gaza: Israel, Hamas, and the Long War on Palestine

Omer Bartov’s NYT piece, “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.”

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