Elise Stefanik's new book recounts the dangerous extremism in higher education

Elise Stefanik's new book recounts the dangerous extremism in higher education

Rep. Elise Stefanik’s (R-NY) new book, Poisoned Ivies, opens with a premise that many American Jews have come to learn painfully: elite universities in the United States have become incubators for ideological extremism, moral confusion, and open antisemitism. But reading the book as merely a political critique of higher education misses what makes it so unsettling. For many readers, the crisis Stefanik documents is deeply personal. It forces a p…