Pentagon to cut ties with Columbia, Yale, Brown and others Hegseth accuses of 'wokeness'

The Pentagon will forbid members of the military from attending Columbia, Yale, Brown and other universities starting next school year amid a campaign to cut ties with institutions that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called “factories of anti-American resentment.” Hegseth announced the policy in a video posted to social media on Friday, three weeks after he said the military was cutting ties with Harvard University. Without citing evidence, Hegseth said the universities have become “breeding grounds of toxic indoctrination” that undermine military values. Hegseth said the ban applies to Columbia, Brown, Yale, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and “many others.”