After over 100 years of partnership, the U.S. Military, under the hand of U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, is planning to cut ties with Scouting America, formally known as the Boy Scouts. In documents shared with NPR, Hegseth explains the split by saying that the organization now "attack[s] boy-friendly spaces" and no longer gives effort to "cultivating masculine values." "The organization once endorsed by President Theodore Roosevelt no longer supports the future of American boys," he writes.
"A neutral university, paradoxically, in this nation at the moment would be a conservative university. Not espousing conservative values, certainly not indoctrinating in conservatism," Landry said. "We'd be neutral. We wouldn't choose sides."