May 27, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| So, sorry, somebody had a question, what do I think of Harvard? | |
| Harvard in the yard. | |
| What do I think of Harvard, Trump's ban on Harvard accepting foreign students? | |
| Was it something like that? | |
| Now, hasn't this been overturned? | |
| Hasn't this been overturned by some, I mean, the activist judges? | |
| People don't vote for the judges, really. | |
| They vote for the president, but the judges keep. | |
| Interfering with the will of the people, right? | |
| And it doesn't go well from here, right? | |
| What happened with Trump's ban on foreign students? | |
| I think, was it just Harvard? | |
| Yeah, the Trump administration's recent actions targeting foreign students primarily focus on Harvard University. | |
| So, in May 2025, the Trump administration revoked Harvard University's certification under the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, effectively barring the university from enrolling international students for the 2025-26 academic year. | |
| Harvard could no longer host new foreign students, and its approximately 6,800 existing international students, about 27% of its student body were ordered to transfer to other schools or face loss of legal status and potential deportation. | |
| So, yeah, it's a lot to do with the anti-Semitism and so on. | |
| So, had ties to the Chinese Communist Party and so on. | |
| So, let's see here. | |
| A federal judge is ruling, holding nationwide student status for revocation. | |
| Judicial oversight may limit the administration's reach. | |
| So, what do I think about it? | |
| I mean, what was I reading that, was it President Xi in China? | |
| His daughter was, or one of his kids was at an American university. | |
| It's wild. | |
| It's wild. | |
| So, I think the idea that The idea that you would let people from countries utterly devoted to your destruction come and study in your universities is kind of incomprehensible to me. | |
| Now, again, this should all be free market stuff. | |
| The government shouldn't have any power or control in any of this kind of stuff, but yeah, it's crazy. | |
| Yeah, the show is 2714, The Truth About Frozen. | |
| So, it's pretty bad. | |
| If U.S. universities or any sort of country's universities, if those universities are heavily devoted to massive amounts of income from foreign students, and I don't know how it is in the States, but at least the last time I checked here in Canada, foreign students pay many multiples of the price of domestic students. | |
| It's crazy. | |
| Let me just tap that. | |
| foreign students. | |
| Um, bum, bum, bum, New Canadian media. | |
| Oh, that's from 2023. | |
| International students face unlimited tuition increases at most Canadian universities. | |
| Despite making up just 17% of students studying in Canada, international students contributed 43.5% of all tuition fees collected in 2020. | |
| So yeah, it's heavily subsidized for local students. | |
| Let's see here. | |
| In the U.S., the average tuition at public four-year institutions, 2024 to 2025, was over $30,000 per year for internationals versus $11,600 for state residents. | |
| Yeah, so, I mean, you just get massive amounts of money from foreign students, which means that you're going to inevitably end up pandering to foreign students, how much espionage is happening, to train, let's say, Elbonia, right? | |
| The sort of made-up Scott Adams country, right? | |
| So, to train, let's say, Elbonia hates. | |
| America wants to destroy America, right? | |
| Then to train an Albanian engineer is more dangerous than training an Albanian soldier, right? | |
| So why would you train the people of a country that wants to destroy you? | |
| Again, none of it makes any sense from a sort of rational logical self-preservation standpoint, but again, with government, all corruption is possible until it's not. | |
| So, those are my thoughts. | |
| Or to put it another way, like I said, it's a free society, it's a free market, you know, like I talk about in my novel, The Future, freedom.com slash books. | |
| But, let's say that, would you want to subsidize and pay for and donate to a university that trained The enemies of your society on how to better harm and destroy you. | |
| Makes no sense at all. | |
| I mean, let's take a sort of extreme example. | |
| It's not that extreme. | |
| It's an extreme when we think about it. | |
| Can you imagine, during World War II, can you imagine British universities training German engineers and arms manufacturers and weapons manufacturers? | |
| Oh, yes, come over. | |
| As long as you're paying three times the tuition, we're happy to train you on how to better... | |
| Madness. | |
| Madness. | |
| Somebody says, this lady, this is going to be a silly question. | |
| Don't program me, I say. | |
| But I say, I love my cat. | |
| And I ask my husband if he also loves the cat. | |
| And he says, no, because the cat cannot be virtuous. | |
| So we can love our pets even if they're not virtuous. | |
| So we need more words for love. | |
| I have affection for my cat. | |
| Seems cumbersome. | |
| I mean... | |
| It's just not the same as the way you would love a virtuous person, right? | |
| Look, I'm not the language police, obviously. | |
| If you want to say you love your cat, that's fine, right? | |
| But you just have to look at the evolution, right? | |
| So why is it that we have great affection for our pets? | |
| Because our pets are essential for our human survival, like particularly, you know, Winter and farming communities, right? | |
| Winter-based, snow-based. | |
| So cats, of course, are essential for keeping vermin out of your winter food stocks, right? | |
| Now, that's why we have. | |
| I mean, I feel this very strongly. | |
| I have this immense attachment to animals. | |
| Very powerful. | |
| Very powerful. | |
| Of course, my ancestors were landowners and farmers and so on, right? | |
| So, um... | |
| She doesn't really do it as much anymore. | |
| But when she used to hold frogs, if every now and then the frog would jump from her hand and land on something hard, like, I don't know, tarmac or concrete or something like that, I'd be like, oh, I'd feel it. | |
| Like, I'd be like, please, God. | |
| And I'd always have to turn her away from, she'd hold the frog, and oh, look at the frog, it's so cute, it's a beautiful frog. | |
| Please point it to the grass. | |
| So if it jumps, it lands on something soft. | |
| And we'd have these disagreements. | |
| You'd say, oh, but they're fine. |
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