Overview

• Fareed Zakaria, CNN host, criticizes elite American universities for prioritizing political agendas over academic excellence.
• Zakaria argues that universities have transformed from being centers of excellence to institutions pushing political agendas, leading to a loss of public trust.
• He suggests that universities have neglected their core focus on excellence to pursue agendas around diversity and inclusion, which have morphed into dogmatic ideologies.
• Zakaria points out the lack of political diversity at universities and questions why safe spaces, microaggressions, and hate speech protections do not apply to all groups.
• He urges universities to abandon politics, focus on their core strengths, and rebuild their reputations as centers of research and learning.