bernard-henri levy, thank you so much. nri: thank you. ♪ john: right now, christmas music seems to be everywhere on the radio, in stores and in waiting rooms. but if history is any guide, it will essentially disappear on tuesday, even though its lifespan is the four weeks between thanksgiving and christmas christmas music is a , big part of the music industry. nate sloane is an assistant professor at the university of southern california's thornton school of music. he's also the co-host of a podcast called switched on pop. nate, what is it about christmas music that makes it so popular, that makes people love it so? nate: i think the main thing is that it sounds different from the things that you hear the rest of the year on radio. christmas music is nostalgic. it's fr different era. it uses acoustic instruments. you hear voices like bing crosby and brenda lee. >> ♪ rocking around the christmas tree ♪ nate: it stands out from business as usual in the american music industry. john: i mean, you mentioned bing crosby, brenda l

. >>> and also bernard henri levy on anti-semitism rearing its very ugly head again. >>> and former harvard president drew faust on racism in america. >>> but first here is my take. when one thinks of america's great efts strengths, the kind of strengths with admiration and envy, american's elite universities would have long been at top of the list. but the american public has been losing faith in these universities for good reason. three university presidents came under fire this week for their vague and indecisive answers when calling for the genocide of jews would violate their code of con duck. but we have to understand the broad shift that has taken place at elite universities which have gone from being centers of excellence to institutions pushing political agendas. people sense the transformation. as paul taffer points out, the adults that said a college degree was very important fell from 74% in 2013 to just 41% in 2 2019. in 2018, 61% of the polls said higher education was headed in the wrong direction and only 38% felt it was on the right track. 70% of high school students heading

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bernard henri levy, always. >>> nine weeks into the war, israel continues to bombard gaza with air strikesat is the strategy behind all this violence? i'll talk to the diplomatic correspondent amir tebran next. >>> on friday, the united -- the united states vetoed a u.n. security council resolution calling for a ceasefire in gaza. israeli air strikes continue to pound gaza throughout the weekend and israel's national security adviser said yes today, it can no longer accept hezbollah on its northern border. does israel plan to expand its war. i want to bring in amir teban in israel and he's correspondent for for the israeli newspaper. amir, welcome. i want to ask you, for those of us looking at this from afar, it does appear that the air strikes continue at a kind of extraordinary pace. the financial times has calculated that more of gaza has been destroyed than dresden during world war ii. human rights monitor says in the first month israel has dropped 25,000 tons of fire power which is the equivalent of two nuclear bombs. that's just in the first month. the civilian death count is now 17,