New York, NY — October 28, 2025 — Threshold Editions, a division of Simon & Schuster, will publish POISONED IVIES: The Inside Account of the Academic and Moral Rot at America's Elite Universities by Congresswoman Elise Stefanik on April 7, 2026.

For decades, conservatives have warned about the decline of higher education in the United States. Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, a Harvard alumna, lit the fuse for the current fight when she asked the presidents of America’s most prestigious universities a simple moral question in a Congressional hearing: Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate your university’s code of conduct on bullying and harassment? Her bold and incisive questioning of the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania sparked a national reckoning and led to the resignation of multiple college presidents. The Congressional hearing earned billions of views worldwide and set the record for the most viewed Congressional testimony in history.

POISONED IVIES delivers an unflinching account of what has happened on college campuses, how colleges lost their way, and how we must save American higher education from itself. Congresswoman Stefanik exposes how the nation’s most prestigious institutions abandoned their founding ideas of freedom of thought, open debate, and academic excellence, and instead embraced a culture of censorship, radical Left groupthink, antisemitism, and moral cowardice that has spread far beyond campus walls into every corner of American life.

Both a damning exposé and a blueprint for reform, POISONED IVIES is a timely story of courage, conviction, and the power of one voice to challenge the status quo in American higher education and deliver a long-overdue reckoning.

“The hearing heard around the world was unlike any other experience I have had serving at the highest levels of Congress over the past decade. It set off an earthquake in academia and delivered accountability that was long overdue. The moral and academic crisis within America's most elite universities is wide and deep, and it is already having far-reaching and devastating impacts. The horrific stories from students are riveting and it is truly shocking that this scourge of antisemitism is happening in the 21st century in the United States of America. I am proud to lead boldly with strength and moral clarity on one of the most important issues of our time," said Congresswoman Stefanik.

Congresswoman Elise Stefanik represents New York’s 21st District and serves as the Chair of House Republican Leadership. When she was first elected, Stefanik made history as the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. Congresswoman Stefanik is widely recognized as one of the most effective questioners in Congressional hearings. She graduated from Harvard College. Congresswoman Stefanik and her family live in Upstate New York where she cherishes spending time with her young son Sam.

Threshold Editions acquired World Rights from Keith Urbahn at Javelin. The audio edition will publish simultaneously.