Victor Davis Hanson

Yeah, and you know what's weird?

I've spent over 50 years in academia at a number of institutions, and I can tell you that among the faculty, one of the greatest criticisms is that they do let in legacies.

A lot of the legacies are very qualified, but they do let in legacies.

So she says, well, there are all these legacies here, and everybody doesn't... And that's as criticized as affirmative action.

And I can tell you...

In the CSU system that I taught in, I would get calls from coaches and say, Victor, this guy is middle linebacker.

Or this guy, I don't know how he ended up in your class, but you've got to do something.

And he couldn't do the work.

And you'd say, no, you go talk to the administrator and get him out.

I'm not going to do it.

He's going to get an F. But the point I'm making is that

People have always objected to athletes who can't do the work but get exemptions or rich kids that their parents get in or people who get in on their color.

But what she's saying is, well, I got in here and I found out that the guys, some of the legacies and athletes were no better qualified than I was.

Well, yeah, that's true.

But that's not a justification for it.

People criticize that all the time.

You know, the late Christopher Hitchens, I knew pretty well.

He was a man of the left, and he had written about her Princeton senior thesis.

So I knew him pretty well, and he called me up, and he sent it to me, you know, PDF.

And I could not understand it.