From Harvard to the Culture War: Shabbos Kestenbaum on Antisemitism, Politics, & The West

Shabbos Kestenbaum joins the podcast to discuss anti-semitism at Harvard, his personal and political journey through elite academia, and the rise of grievance culture and anti-Western ideology on campus and beyond. A Harvard graduate, Kestenbaum reflects on the breakdown of liberal values at elite universities, the normalization of antisemitism in progressive spaces, and how these academic trends connect to broader crises in American politics and Western civilization. Topics include anti-semitism at Harvard and other elite universities, campus activism, identity politics, grievance culture, anti-Westernism, free speech, and the cultural consequences of institutional failure.