Seth Leibsohn: A Commonsense Push on Our Universities

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

For too long universities here have operated as islands, separate from their country, promoting junk thought and radical ideology.  Thus, the Trump administration has proposed a funding compact for universities to receive federal dollars. This includes universities that host organizations supporting terrorist networks. Universities hosting organizations that fight for the total eradication of Western civilization—and give admission to students from other countries who lead those organizations.

The Compact is commonsense: calling for admissions based on objective criteria, support for a vibrant marketplace of ideas, civil discourse, non-discrimination in hiring, and institutional neutrality (like other non-profits). A number of universities are refusing.

Why?  They believe they should be entitled to your money, even as they are contemptuous of your values, American values. Universities promoting and teaching ideas alien to the best human civilization can offer, and using criteria alien to any notion of civil rights, should end. Now.

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