Long before high school debate judges were declaring themselves Marxist–Leninist revolutionaries, red flags were flying high across college campuses. In this fourth episode of “The Death of Debate,” I’m digging into how America’s academic institutions became fertile ground for the radical ideologies now undermining free speech and open debate. Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose exposed the intellectual rot with the “Grievance Studies Affair”—publishing absurd but ideologically pleasing papers in major journals. Around the same time, Bret Weinstein was targeted by a racial struggle-session mob at Evergreen State College. These weren’t isolated scandals—they were early signs of the same ideological capture now reshaping high school debate and training students to fear disagreement. Tune in next Friday for episode five of “The Death of Debate.”