Fox News host Pete Hegseth spoke at the Marvin Center Amphitheater Tuesday about a series of issues at the intersection of media and politics.

Hegseth, who co-hosts the conservative news and talk show “Fox & Friends,” spoke about a myriad of political issues, including free speech on college campuses, the effects of globalism and the decline of American patriotism. The event was hosted by the College Republicans.

Hegseth said conservative voices are increasingly being silenced on college campuses, adding that free speech is “under threat” at universities because those on the left often decide what constitutes “acceptable speech.”

“Writ large at campuses across America today, we’re at a place where conservatives are fighting and clamoring for the continuation of true free speech, and the left is talking about things like acceptable speech or fair speech or comfortable speech,” he said. “That means views outside their box are suppressed or not upheld.”

Hegseth added that many liberal politicians tend to have a globalist perspective on politics instead of one that focuses on American issues. He said that as a result, liberal politicians are more preoccupied with international issues than problems that directly affect Americans.

He said the liberal perspective that “no one country is better than another” contradicts the idea that America’s political systems, including checks and balances and legitimate electoral politics, are “exceptional.”

“Globalism tells you those things aren’t special,” he said. “This American experiment is truly exceptional and truly special, and that doesn’t make you arrogant as an American to feel that way. It makes you cognizant of history.”

Hegseth added that it is not the responsibility of the United States to intervene to solve other countries’ problems.

“I have empathy for the human condition in any place, but as a citizen living in America, it is not my job to spend my tax dollars my government takes from me to worry about the plight of every single person on the planet,” he said.

Hegseth also discussed what he described as the decline of patriotism in the United States. He attributed the downturn to the removal of an emphasis on civics in school curricula and in society.

“What the left has done since the 1960s and the 1970s is capture those spaces, not just our college campuses, but our high schools, our Hollywood, our media, our newspapers, our TV stations, our arts,” he said. “All of those spaces have been captured by the left.”

Hegseth expressed his concerns about the United States’ future position on the world stage, warning Americans not to abandon the country’s founding principles.

“We think, ‘we’re rich, we’re free, we’re powerful, that’s the way it’ll always be,’” he said. “Not true. The Romans thought that, the Brits thought that, a lot of people thought that, and they got fat and they got comfy and lazy, and then they got beat.”