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Why America’s Universities Are Falling Apart

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Victor Davis Hanson

6/19/2026|Updated: 6/19/2026

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This is a lightly edited transcript of a June 18 segment of the Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words podcast.

There’s been a lot of news lately about the university’s higher education crisis, and universities are now competing for students rather than students competing with each other to get into universities.

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Victor Davis Hanson

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Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, a senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University, a fellow of Hillsdale College, and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Mr. Hanson has written 17 books, including “The Western Way of War,” “Fields Without Dreams,” “The Case for Trump,” and “The Dying Citizen.”