OUT: ISLAMOPHOBIA. In: Tyrannophobia.

FOR NEW LAW STUDENTS, ADVICE ON SUCCEEDING IN LAW SCHOOL.

My take: Showing up. You’d be amazed how many people who do poorly miss a lot of classes. And, for that matter, how many people who fail the bar didn’t attend all (or even nearly all) the sessions in the bar review course. A friend of mine who’s a dean at another school described a first-year student who quit showing up for classes. When he called her she said she quit showing up because she was having trouble following the discussion. That’s not a good strategy if you’re not understanding things. . . .

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Apologies are chum in the water for SJW sharks. Don’t feed them.

Earlier: Thanks to SJWs, Get ready for the ‘tech alt-right’ to gain influence in Silicon Valley.

EMAIL SHOW HOW FRIGHTENED BERKELEY STAFF WERE OF PROTESTERS:

The University of California at Berkeley played down news last summer that it had installed an “escape hatch” from protesters in the chancellor’s office. The term was “the concoction of a 19-year-old headline writer,” a university spokesman said, referring to the student reporter who broke the story. “It’s a door,” the rep said, later adding that campus security thought it was “beneficial” to have more than one exit.

But internal emails we’ve seen show that a staff “deeply disturbed by [recent] occupations” did build the exit to protect themselves from potentially dangerous students.

In a proposal requesting funding for the $9,000 security door, the chancellor’s office detailed the risk of “vandalism & malicious mischief” and a “high . . . level of probability of future loss or injury if [the] condition is not addressed.” The proposal noted that protesters had “rushed the building and attempted to occupy” the chancellor’s office in April 2015. “Staff people pushed to close the office doors while protestors pushed them open.”

Approval of the project was “GREAT NEWS” and provided “a more secure exit for the Chancellor and staff in the event of a serious, and possibly life-threatening emergency,” wrote Dee Middleton, building manager for the hall that houses the chancellor’s office, in a June 18, 2015 email.

After repeated vandalism and trespassing, the university also installed a $700,000 security fence around the home of Chancellor Nicholas Dirks. In April Mr. Dirks said his office’s “so-called escape hatch” was installed at the behest of nervous staffers, adding that while he personally felt safe on campus, “I do feel, though, that Berkeley is under siege.”

He has a point. In February rioting protesters prompted Berkeley to cancel a speech by blogger Milo Yiannopoulos and evacuate him from campus. Some of the masked activists set fires, threw Molotov cocktails, and tossed fireworks and rocks at university police.

Berkeley’s associate executive vice chancellor Phyllis Hoffman wrote on June 4, 2016 that administrators at “both [University of California] Santa Cruz and Davis talked about the level of trauma their staff has experienced,” adding that they were “fearful after some intrusive and aggressive student protests, similar to ours.”

So there you have it: Administrators are no longer figuratively retreating or cowering from out-of-control students. They’re creating the physical architecture to literally do so. It might be more dignified and less expensive to have these kids arrested when they break the law.

That would offend Leftist Privilege.

FRANK BRUNI: I’m a White Man. Hear Me Out. Don’t be silly. Such a demand is privilege.

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ACCOUNTABILITY: Jury orders blogger to pay $8.4 million to ex-Army colonel she accused of rape.

CHARLOTTESVILLE: Police name 20-year-old James Fields as driver in fatal Charlottesville crash: Report.

WELL, THAT’S ENCOURAGING: U.S. Biomedical Research Facilities Still Unprepared for Natural Disasters and Attacks.

CHARLIE MARTIN: What Roadhouse Can Teach Us About North Korea.

MEH. THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES WAS THE LAST DECENT TERMINATOR PROPERTY: Arnold Schwarzenegger confirms role in ‘Terminator 6,’ but not as T-800.

JOHN MCGINNIS: Comparing the Ideological Bubbles of Google and the Elite University.

If the ideological bubble at Google harms the culture of Google, competitors will benefit. If it hires less than the best for diversity reasons, its output will suffer. One might respond that given that other companies inhabit the same ideological bubble, Google will suffer no comparative disadvantage.

But start-ups don’t have to follow the diversity orthodoxy. And for Google the greatest risk is that some start-up will disrupt the world again before Google does. When Larry Page and Sergei Brin wrote the code that changed the world out of a garage, they did not need to worry about diversity mandates. Travis Kalanick was famously politically incorrect in creating Uber as one of the fastest growing companies in the world. And companies in Asia do not face the same ideological pressures but in the modern world they can disrupt businesses in the United States. Thus, the diversity orthodoxy is likely to transform Google less than than it has the modern university even if Google feels it must fire an incautious engineer.

Perhaps the paucity of innovation from Silicon Valley over the past decade is the result of its increasing corporate homogenization.

CHANGE THE LANGUAGE, CHANGE THE CULTURE IS A TOOL BOTH SIDES CAN USE: “Staff at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have been told to avoid using the term climate change in their work, with the officials instructed to reference ‘weather extremes’ instead.”

Curiously, the editors of the Newspeak Dictionary disapprove of this update.

NIGHTMARE: Elderly man found dead in elevator after he called for help and no one came. “Isaak Komisarchik, 82, was last seen alive on July 5. Nearly a month later, his decomposing body was found in an inoperable elevator at the Woodstream Village apartments in Denver after tenants complained to management about an awful smell coming from a parking garage area that was under renovation, CNN affiliate KMGH reported. Denver police are investigating what went wrong — particularly after police determined Komisarchik tried to summon help by pressing the elevator’s emergency button at least twice on morning of July 6, police spokesman Doug Schepman told CNN. Did anyone check the elevator after the emergency button was pushed? The answer is no, Schepman told CNN on Friday.”

I JUST THROW THEM AWAY FREQUENTLY AND GET OUT NEW ONES: We Need to Talk Some More About Your Dirty Sponges. That said, I think it’s a mistake to try to keep your environment too germ-free.

JAMES DAMORE WAS FIRED FOR BEING INSUFFICIENTLY GOOGLY. “Googly. Yes, it’s a word, at least within Google. It’s an adjective describing someone who has the appropriate characteristics of a Google employee,” Charlie Martin writes. “He rejected Google’s internal mythology, and worse, he did so with basic math, in a company where mathiness is supposed to be part of the culture.”

Is it? Mathiness is racist and sexist and homophobic, all the SJWs tell me.

PROTESTS ARE FINE, RIOTS ARE BAD, NO MATTER WHO’S DOING THE RIOTING: Trump Condemns Riots in Charlottesville: ‘Swift Restoration of Law and Order’ Is Vital.

“We must love each other, respect each other and cherish our history and our future together,” the president said in remarks before signing the Veterans Affairs Act in Bedminster, New Jersey.

“What is vital now is a swift restoration of law and order and the protection of innocent lives,” Trump said. “No citizen should ever fear for their safety and security in our society.”

“No matter our color, creed, religion, or political party, we are all Americans first. We love our country, we love our God, we love our flag, we’re proud of our country. We’re proud of who we are,” said the president.

Indeed.

PROFILES IN LEFTIST COMPASSION: Is it bad that I laugh at homeless white men for how much they screwed up their privilege, whenever I see one?

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DO TELL: Fired Google engineer James Damore says company is ‘like a cult.’

Damore wrote in the op-ed that he “committed heresy against the Google creed by stating that not all disparities between men and women that we see in the world are the result of discriminatory treatment.”

Damore said that when he tried to engage in “reasoned discussion” with his peers on the issue, “mostly I was ignored.”

While his cause has lit up the conservative blogosphere, Damore chose to quote famous leftist intellectual Noam Chomsky.

“As Noam Chomsky once observed, ‘the smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum,'” Damore wrote.

I’m not sure Google even gets that far.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD HARDEST HIT: Law says Tennessee women can get birth control without a doctor’s prescription.

BECAUSE THERE’S ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE? Why We Fell For “Clean” Eating.

COINCIDENCE, I’M SURE: Going to the New York Times opinion page to reread David Brooks’ column calling for Google’s Sundar Pichai to resign, and I get this: