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Reforming American colleges
I agree with this: The issues in Academia go well beyond anti-Semitism; they go directly to the heart of what it means to be educated rather than indoctrinated. For the last several decades, progressive activists have transformed the former into … Continue reading →
How to change the direction of leftist and anti-Semitic universities
It won’t be easy, that’s for sure. But at least more people have become aware of the problem. Commenter “J.J.” writes: The solution for change, I submit, is to cut off the money. State legislatures can do this in red … Continue reading →
The problem in academia is much worse than the presidents (plus: the Red Cross)
There have been demands that the three presidents – of Harvard, MIT, and Penn – step down because of their refusal to define calls for genocide of Jews as “harassment” and their insistence that it be put into “context” instead. … Continue reading →
“Genocide” is a word that has lost its meaning …
… in the hands of the left. Then again, that happened a long time ago. Apparently, any attack by Israel is a genocide, according to the anti-Israel anti-Jew crowd on the left and in the Arab world. Those on the … Continue reading →
Milei of Argentina
The results of Argentina’s recent election are interesting, to say the least: [Argentina] has just elected a radical free-market economics professor named Javier Milei as its new president … … Milei’s landslide win over an entrenched left-wing political machine Juan … Continue reading →
On the leftist takeover of American universities: looking back at John Silber
This new book – The Canceling of the American Mind, about leftism and cancel culture at universities in the US – looks interesting. It obviously harks back to Allan’s Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, published in 1987, and … Continue reading →
No government shutdown for now
Congress approved another stopgap measure to avoid a shutdown: The United States Senate passed a continuing resolution late Wednesday night that will, at least for now, avoid a government shutdown. The bill passed by a margin of 87–11, with 10 … Continue reading →
Brendan O’Neill on Hamas and our university leftists
O’Neill writes: It is time to ask ourselves if our woke elites are not just Hamas’s useful idiots, but its unofficial spindoctors. Not just excuse-makers for Islamist barbarism, but authors of the very justifications the Islamists offer up for their … Continue reading →
Suella Braverman fired; Cameron replaces her
Suella Braverman was just starting to grab my attention. Then just like that – poof! – she’s gone. But she may return in some other capacity in the future, particularly as a challenger for the role of head of the … Continue reading →
A question of statistics: Jewish financial contributions to the Democrats?
Commenter “huxley” wonders, as does commenter “Mike K”: “The other day I read a number that I have trouble accepting. It was that 50% of Democrat contributions come from Jews.” Mike K: I saw that too and wondered. Dunno. I … Continue reading →
As expected, Biden and company want a “pause” by Israel: politics and psychological warfare
Biden call it a “humanitarian pause,” of course. And indeed, it would be very kind to Hamas. But remember that old saying, “Whoever is kind to the cruel will end up being cruel to the kind.” An actual humanitarian pause … Continue reading →