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Our radical universities are turning out an army of educated assassins
The ranks of would-be presidential assassins are a cavalcade of losers, yet the latest shooter who set out to murder President Donald Trump — the man who opened fire at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Sunday — turns out to have an elite educational background.
Cole Allen is a graduate of CalTech, the prestigious California Institute of Technology.
In the most recent City Journal college rankings, CalTech took the top spot for “value added to career,” but languished at a dismal 95th place for “student ideological diversity.”
The rankings noted the school’s “disproportionately large Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion bureaucracy” — with “roughly ten DEI staff members per 1,000 students” — and its “overwhelmingly liberal” student body, “16 liberal students for every conservative.”
Even by the sagging standards of 21st-century American universities, CalTech is politically monolithic, but is that enough to radicalize someone like Cole?
Unfortunately, recent studies suggest our institutions of higher ed actually increase their students’ acceptance of political violence.
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Some 23% of Americans with a high-school diploma or less endorse the statement “Violence is often necessary to create social change,” according to the Skeptic Research Center’s 2025 American Political Perspective Survey.
After four years of college, the proportion who find political violence........