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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Carol Platt Liebau: Elite Universities Fast Running Out of Prestige
Description: Americans watched in horrified disbelief as the presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT testified before Congress last week. The leaders of three of the most prestigious universities in the country revealed themselves as inept, morally bankrupt frauds, as they danced around whether campus calls for genocide constitute harassment. This is a moment of maximum peril for elite universities, which rely on reputations earned decades ago. Essentially, they run on prestige. If Americans sense they’re choosing their students by the same flawed methods they’re using to choose their leaders, the prestige that sustains them is v...