| Personal Name |
Stefanik, Elise, 1984- author.
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| Title Statement |
Poisoned Ivies : the inside account of the academic and moral rot at America's elite universities / Elise Stefanik.
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| Edition Statement |
First Threshold Editions hardcover edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
©2026.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, [2026]
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| Physical Description |
xiii, 241 pages ; 24 cm.
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent.
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia.
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
The hearing heard around the world -- Harvard -- Harvard exposed -- University of Pennsylvania -- Columbia -- The other Ivies and beyond: Yale -- Princeton -- Brown -- Northwestern -- Cooper Union -- MIT -- Cornell -- What went wrong? -- How we fix it -- Appendix: [excerpts from Stefanik's questioning of university presidents at the hearings of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce : Claudine Gay, Liz Magill, Sally Kornbluth, Minouche Shafik, David Schizer, Claire Shipman, David Greenwald, Michael Schill].
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| Summary, Etc. |
"For decades, conservatives have warned about the decline of higher education. Now, for the first time in modern history, Americans are taking action. Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, a Harvard alumna herself, lit the fuse when she posed basic questions to the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania, such as: Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate your university's rules on bullying and harassment? Their inability to answer with moral clarity sparked a national reckoning causing multiple Ivy League presidents to resign. It was the most-watched Congressional hearing of all time. But that was just the beginning. Poisoned Ivies delivers an unflinching account of what has gone wrong on America's college campuses. Stefanik exposes how the nation's most prestigious institutions abandoned their founding ideals of freedom of thought, open debate, and academic excellence, and instead embraced a culture of censorship, radical leftist groupthink, antisemitism, and moral cowardice that has spread far beyond campus walls to every corner of American life. Both a damning exposé and a blueprint for reform, Poisoned Ivies is a timely story of courage and conviction and the power of one voice to challenge the status quo in American higher education and delivers a long-overdue reckoning. A must-read for anyone concerned with the fight for our nation's soul." -- Publisher's website.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Poisoned Ivies by Elise Stefanik examines recent debates surrounding higher education in the United States, particularly at elite universities. The book discusses a congressional hearing involving leaders from Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of Pennsylvania, and considers public and institutional responses to issues such as campus speech, antisemitism, and university governance. Stefanik presents her perspective on changes in academic culture, including discussions of free expression, ideological diversity, and administrative decision-making. The work also outlines proposed approaches to reform within higher education institutions.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Stefanik, Elise, 1984-
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Social sciences United States.
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Right and left (Political science) United States.
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Hate speech United States.
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Private universities and colleges United States Administration.
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Universities and colleges Civil rights United States.
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