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Opportunity, Not Tragedy January 31, 2024
If you’ve ever watched a monster movie, you know the scene. The triumphant heroes walk away, the creature they had just vanquished left for dead behind them. And then, in a furious flash just before the credits start rolling, it opens its eyes and po...
Have Universities Ever Been a Source of Wisdom? January 16, 2024
Over at Power Line, while discussing the Claudine Gay/Harvard scandals, John Hinderaker raised the “broader question whether universities collectively have even been a source of wisdom on political issues.”It’s an important question, and it has a cle...
The Economy of University Prestige January 11, 2024
No doubt many conservatives, especially those in higher education, have been clinking glasses at the news that Claudine Gay has resigned after a short and undistinguished presidency at Harvard University. Gay was responsible for the mistreatment of c...
Overton Collapse January 10, 2024
Grab your popcorn, kids, it’s a good old fashioned Plagiarism War. In the end, it was the morally inverted rape parades that drove America’s more moderate billionaires to interrogate those age old questions “what the hell is going on at Harvard,” and...
Claudine Gay and the Mafia of Mediocrity January 08, 2024
What do Nasra Abukar Ali and Claudine Gay have in common? Or, for that matter, the Somali Ministry of Sports and the Harvard Corporation?The answer is straightforward: both Ali and Gay came unprepared onto a major public stage, failed spectacularly i...
Harvard, Claudine Gay & “The Silver Spoon Rule” January 05, 2024
The biggest problem with smart people is that they’re incredibly good at using their prefrontal cortices to rationalize what they want to believe in the first place. This is a well-documented phenomenon, and one you can observe yourself right now. Ar...
Is 2024 the Year of Reckoning for Academia? January 04, 2024
2023 was not a good year for the public opinion of elite universities. They were rife with scandals, from controversies around hate speech, issues around affirmative action, and multiple high-profile instances of academic misconduct. At this point, p...
How to Fix Harvard January 04, 2024
In light of today’s news, I thought I would try to take a step back and provide perspective on what this is really all about.I first became concerned about Harvard when 34 student organizations, early on the morning of October 8—before Israel had tak...
Onward with Inclusiveness January 03, 2024
In her parting shot at Harvard, newly resigned president Claudine Gay has provided a reminder of why she never should have been made president in the first place. Gay stepped down today following months of turmoil caused by her reaction to the Hamas ...
