Rep. Elise Stefanik’s (R-NY) new book, Poisoned Ivies, opens with a premise that many American Jews have come to learn painfully: elite universities in the United States have become incubators for ideological extremism, moral confusion, and open antisemitism. But reading the book as merely a political critique of higher education misses what makes it so unsettling. For many readers, the crisis Stefanik documents is deeply personal. It forces a painful reassessment not just of institutions, but of friendships, communities, and people we once trusted.