The Charlie Kirk Show The Reporter Who Brings Down Harvard Presidents ft. Aaron Sibarium
Sep 5, 2025
Aaron Sibarium, an investigative reporter with the Washington Free Beacon, dives deep into discrimination and higher education. He discusses his transformative experience at Yale that shifted his political views. Sibarium exposes the ramifications of racial preferences in medical education, questioning how diversity initiatives affect patient care. He also tackles the rise of anti-Semitism on campuses and the complexities surrounding these issues, urging a more rigorous response to anti-Israel sentiments and the portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian narrative.
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Yale Moments That Shifted A Reporter
- Aaron Sibarium describes three Yale experiences that pushed him rightward: the Political Union, cultural-appropriation protests, and editing opinion pieces.
- He watched bright students adopt arguments he found extreme and performative, which shifted his political trajectory.
Race-Based COVID Triage Was Implemented
- Sibarium found that race-based COVID triage schemes added points to non-white patients and skewed scarce treatments like monoclonal antibodies.
- Those public, documented policies stopped only after his reporting and legal threats exposed civil-rights problems.
Why Medicine Embraced DEI Easily
- Sibarium links public-health thinking and conformity in medicine to susceptibility to DEI and race-based policies.
- He suggests medical culture lacked institutional 'antibodies' to resist woke influence compared with fields like law.
