Vance: Current Political Mindset Among University Faculty Like ‘North Korea’
Charlie Kirk Staff
06/04/2025

Vice President J.D. Vance took aim at the lack of ideological diversity on college campuses like Harvard, speaking Tuesday night at the “American Compass” Gala in Washington.
“I don’t know what the voting in the 2024 election of Harvard’s faculty was. My guess is that at least 90 percent and probably 95 percent voted for ‘very brilliant’ Kamala Harris,” the vice president said.
“If you ask yourself in a foreign election, if 80 percent of people voted for one candidate, you would say, ‘Oh that’s kind of weird. That’s not a super healthy democracy.’ If 95 percent voted for one party’s candidate, you’d say, ‘That’s North Korea.’ It is impossible in a true place of free exchange for that to happen,” Vance said.
“I think the ideological diversity of these universities has to get much better. And I think if that got better, if you actually had a place where people were open to debating these things, and weren’t terrified they were going to lose their job for saying something that was a little outside of the Overton Window, I think the science would get better. The preproducability would get better. The quality of the institution would be so much better, and that’s what I want because we need high quality universities. Right now, the problem is we don’t have them,” he said.
In one lighthearted part of the night the vice president teased the man who was interviewing him, American Compass founder Oren Cass, after being called an “intellectual.”
“I am thrilled to have this opportunity to talk with you and so grateful that the work you’re doing and, in a sense, so in awe of it because there are politicians out there who are– they’ve just been politicians,” Cass said to start the conversation.
“But you are someone who was an intellectual first. Some people don’t like the word ‘intellectual.’ But I mean it in the good sense of the term. You were writing for National Review. You were at the bar late at night arguing about and helping shape these ideas that you are now–” he said before the vice president interrupted him.
“I come here for free and you insult me. And you call me ‘an intellectual,’ remind me that I wrote for National Review. What an asshole this guy is!” he quipped.
“That’s fair,” Cass responded. “I will admit that I, too, wrote for National Review.”
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