Ep. 325 Dr Jordan B Peterson and Victor Davis Hanson discuss the state of Ivy League universities, the rise of administrative exploitation, and the cost of our institutions losing credibility. Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, focusing on classics and military history. He is an accomplished academic, professor, and author. He has taught at Stanford, Hillsdale College, the US Naval Academy, and Pepperdine University. His books include “The Second World Wars,” “The End of Sparta,” “The Soul of Battle, Carnage and Culture,” the most recent being “The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America.” Dr Peterson's extensive catalog is available now on DailyWire+: https://utm.io/ueSXh - Sponsors - Birch Gold Group: Text "JORDAN" to 989898 for your no-cost, no-obligation, FREE information kit. - Links - For Victor Davis Hanson: The Hoover Institution: https://www.hoover.org/profiles/victor-davis-hanson Website: https://victorhanson.com/ - Chapters - (0:00) Coming up (1:23) Intro (2:30) Citizen or consumer? (6:20) Transformation of the tribe (8:00) Modern reversion to tribalism (11:42) The need for a higher-order principle (13:40) Aristotle: democracy leads to radical equality (17:00) Western culture’s emphasis on the individual (20:22) Recalibration of the term “diversity” (23:00) Merit left behind, SAT’s (30:00) Campus demographics, competition (31:00) Criteria for admission: why it matters (36:40) What your degree used to mean (38:55) The commissar system (41:00) Admission rejection based on DEI (44:00) The new education front (48:28) Taking accreditation public (53:13) Academia is broken (58:40) Points of failure, Adjuncts (1:03:30) Petty tyranny (1:05:45) Critical legal theory (1:07:15) Child psychology, predators (1:09:39) When patriotism dies (1:13:30) The armed forces, seeking challenge (1:16:00) The fall of Civilization (1:17:25) The dilemma for Conservatives, Trump (1:22:02) Agenda = financial support (1:24:55) The Gulag Archipelago, ethos (1:28:50) Literacy and empowerment (1:33:54) Experiments in belief (1:36:01) America is not a democracy (1:38:15) Appeal of democracy, reality of the mob // SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL // Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/jordanbpeterson.com/youtubesignup Donations: https://jordanbpeterson.com/donate // COURSES // Discovering Personality: https://jordanbpeterson.com/personality Self Authoring Suite: https://selfauthoring.com Understand Myself (personality test): https://understandmyself.com // BOOKS // Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life: https://jordanbpeterson.com/Beyond-Order 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: https://jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: https://jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-meaning // LINKS // Website: https://jordanbpeterson.com Events: https://jordanbpeterson.com/events Blog: https://jordanbpeterson.com/blog Podcast: https://jordanbpeterson.com/podcast // SOCIAL // Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson Instagram: https://instagram.com/jordan.b.peterson Facebook: https://facebook.com/drjordanpeterson Telegram: https://t.me/DrJordanPeterson All socials: https://linktr.ee/drjordanbpeterson #JordanPeterson #JordanBPeterson #DrJordanPeterson #DrJordanBPeterson #DailyWirePlus #TheJordanBPetersonPodcast