January 21, 2026

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Posted at 11:16 am by David Bernstein

HIGHER EDUCATION IMPLOSION UPDATE: Up to 25 percent of U.S. colleges may close soon, Brandeis president warns.

Wealthier institutions may have the resources to withstand the transition, but many others do not. Levine said that elite schools, such as Harvard, can afford to wait out disruptions, while smaller institutions face immediate pressure to adapt.

“Higher education is undergoing a transformation. Our whole society is undergoing a transformation,” Levine said, pointing to the shift from a national, industrial economy to a global, digital, knowledge-based one.

That shift, he said, is driving demographic, economic, technological, and political change that universities have been slow to address.

The challenges facing higher education, Levine said, are not new. He pointed to three longstanding criticisms that date back to the early 19th century, including that colleges change slowly, resist change, and cost too much.

“Outcomes better be worth the price paid,” he said, adding that when society changes, higher education often lags behind and scrambles to catch up.

Glenn tried to warn them. For more than 20 years.

Posted at 10:40 am by Stephen Green

YOU DON’T SAY: Gov. Polis’ State of the State energy claims fail the smell test.

Governor Jared Polis addressed the Colorado legislature in his final State of the State address last week. Polis repeatedly invoked his efforts to build “low-cost clean energy,” but it’s the very same wind, solar, battery storage, and electric vehicles that will make higher energy prices for Coloradans his legacy.

Between January 2019, when Polis entered office, and October 2025, the latest data from the Energy Information Administration, the average residential electricity price in Colorado has risen from 11.91 to 16.26 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh). That’s up 36.52 percent, compared with an increase of 30.78 percent in the wider Mountain region. Since 2004, when Colorado enacted its first renewable portfolio standard, all-sector electricity rates in Colorado have risen from an average of 6.95 to 12.80 cents per kWh in October 2025

That isn’t a coincidence. The legislature passed an aggressive bill in 2019 requiring the power sector to reduce CO2 emissions by 80 percent by 2030 and, with a 2023 law, reach 100 percent renewables by 2050. Meeting those mandates will require retiring ten more major coal-fired units before 2031, or 4,200 megawatts (MW) of nameplate capacity, which planned wind and solar cannot reliably replace. It’s worth noting, too, that Colorado fell short of its first statutory requirement to reduce emissions overall by 26 percent by the end of 2025, though not for lack of trying.

The Independence Institute, in conjunction with Always On Energy Research, found that the Polis administration has underestimated the costs of getting Colorado to 100 percent zero-emissions by 2040. The true costs would add $114.3 billion compared to operating the current grid, and another $214.6 billion through 2050, while creating massive blackouts.

First, “low-cost clean energy” is two lies for the price of one. Second, I plan to be long gone from Colorado before the worst of Polis’s madness kicks in.

Posted at 9:38 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Michelle Obama Exists to Make Hillary Clinton Seem Delightful. “For me, what makes Michelle Obama so insufferable is that she acts as if she is a civil rights crusader from 1957. Despite having been the First Lady of the land for eight years and having her behind kissed in the nine years since she and hubby left the White House, Mrs. Obama would have everyone believe that she’s a permanent victim of oppression. She constantly throws around both the race and the gender cards, and the idiotic masses who voted for her husband lap it up.”

Posted at 9:07 am by Stephen Green

TVS BECAME SPYWARE AS SOON AS THEY BECAME SMART, AND NOW SONY IS HOPPING INTO BED WITH THE CCP:

Posted at 8:51 am by Stephen Green

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Posted at 8:43 am by Glenn Reynolds

MINNESOTA NICE:

Rosiak also posted that Harmeet Dhillon “is already investigating Moriarty for taking ‘racial identity’ into account when making charging decisions, and HUD is investigating Minneapolis for giving minorities preference when it comes to housing subsidies. Lundy is involved in both.”

In the meantime, we need a total and complete shutdown of Minnesota until we can figure out what the hell is going on.

Posted at 8:19 am by Stephen Green