CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Slams American Universities: No Longer Seen as ‘Bastions of Excellence, But as Partisan Outfits’

Fareed Zakaria torched elite American universities, which he said in a monologue on his CNN show are “no longer seen as bastions of excellence, but as partisan outfits.”

Last week the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, and M.I.T. drew intense backlash for their answers during a hearing about rising antisemitism on college campuses. Penn president Elizabeth Magill resigned on Saturday, just four days after coming under fire for her testimony before Congress. 

Zakaria took the topic head-on during his Sunday program on CNN. 

America’s top universities should abandon their long misadventure into politics, retrain their gaze on their core strengths and rebuild their reputations as centers of research and learning.

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