campus safety

Warning: this episode contains strong language.

Over the past week, students at dozens of universities held demonstrations, set up encampments and, at times, seized academic buildings. In response, administrators at many of those colleges decided to crack down and called in the local police to detain and arrest demonstrators.

As of Thursday, the police had arrested 2,000 people across more than 40 campuses, a situation so startling that President Biden could no longer ignore it.

Jonathan Wolfe, who has been covering the student protests for The Times, and Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent, discuss the history-making week.

Guest: 

• Jonathan Wolfe, a senior staff editor on the newsletters team at The New York Times.
• Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times covering President Biden and his administration.

Background reading: 

• As crews cleared the remnants of an encampment at U.C.L.A., students and faculty members wondered how the university could have handled protests over the war in Gaza so badly.
• Biden denounced violence on campus, breaking his silence after a rash of arrests.

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Megyn Kelly begins the show by discussing the chaos on college campuses with anti-Israel and anti-America brats, police finally making hundreds of arrests, UNC students taking a stand and putting the American flag back up, and more. Then Batya Ungar-Sargon, author of "Second Class,” joins to discuss why this crop of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish campus protesters actually hate America, how some Jewish students are fighting back but others just want to go to school, how America's elites are increasingly out-of-touch, why Biden's "student debt forgiveness" for art students will backfire electorally, Drew Barrymore’s over-the-top reaction to her guest VP Kamala Harris, why celebrities like Drew don’t understand what matters to real Americans, why the country does not need a “hug” from "Momala" but rather actually effective policies from the Biden administration, the media obsession with the absurd Trump trial, the freakout over the new Time Magazine profile of Trump, Biden's education secretary sparring with a GOP senator over radical transgender ideology in schools, and more.

Ungar-Sargon- https://www.amazon.com/Second-Class-Betrayed-Americas-Working/dp/1641773618
 

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