22% of Undergrads Say America Deserved 9/11

There is something terribly, horribly wrong with the American education system. It is nothing short of a national emergency, a crisis.

Nearly one in four undergraduates believes America deserved 9/11. Something is catastrophically wrong with American education. Thousands of innocent people were slaughtered, and these students have learned to call it deserved. That is a moral collapse and an indictment of an education system that has failed to teach even the distinction between criticizing a country and justifying the mass murder of its people. This is a national emergency. A society that cannot teach its young that civilians do not deserve to be massacred is in profound crisis.

In the Buckley Institute’s 2026 survey of 803 undergraduates, more than one in five said America deserved