On the Ground at the Columbia U Encampment | Zach Kessel

Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw

Dan Crenshaw

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🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

National Review’s Zach Kessel has been on the ground at Columbia University covering the pro-Hamas student protests. He joined Rep. Crenshaw to discuss his observations from talking with students about their motivations and end goals. They cover the influence of faculty and outside groups in organizing the encampments. And they discuss the legal ramifications of universities actively enabling antisemitism and discriminatory admissions.

Zach Kessel is a William F. Buckley Jr. Fellow in Political Journalism at National Review and a recent graduate of Northwestern University. Follow him on X at @zach_kessel.

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0:00.0	We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created.
0:03.2	As a member of Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.
0:07.2	Experts on what they're talking about.
0:08.8	This is the podcast.
0:10.0	For insights into the issues.
0:11.5	China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions,
0:15.9	breaking it down into simple terms.
0:17.8	We hold, we hold these truths.
0:20.0	We hold these truths.
0:21.2	With Dan Krenshaw.
0:22.2	The eagle has landed.
0:24.0	Zach, welcome.
0:25.0	Welcome to the greatest podcast ever.
0:27.0	I know you're an avid listener.
0:28.0	I am indeed.
0:29.0	Thanks for having me.
0:30.0	So this will be a somewhat different.
0:32.0	I mean, not necessarily policy focused. I wanted to have you here because you've been on the ground at Columbia University recently covering the craziness and
0:41.0	want to get your take your observations on this sort of uprising that's I think
0:47.0	a predictable and a lot of universities and especially in the last 15 years or so when
0:52.0	we've seen a major transformation in how a university needs
0:57.2	administer their students in the sense that are they there to teach their students or are they
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