GEORGE WILL CHEERING THE END OF 2023, TALKS DEPRESSING FIRE CASES (BUT ALSO A NICE SHOUT OF FOR MY BOOK): “An indispensable 2023 book, ‘The Canceling of the American Mind’ by Greg Lukianoff & Rikki Schlott, reports that Yale has ‘1 administrator for every 4 students. That’s the same ratio the government recommends for child care of infants under 12 months.’” 

CYBER MONDAY DEAL: Luggage. #CommissionEarned

ONE MORE STEP TOWARDS THE SLEEPER DIET: Why eating red meat and dairy could actually prevent cancer.

Classical reference in headline:

COLLUSION: Biden diplomat turned Ivy league scholar faces fire for ties to Iran.

MEANWHILE THEY’RE TRYING TO FIRE AMY WAX FOR INSENSITIVITY: Will the med school prof who helped remove posters of kidnapped Israelis be held to UPenn’s nondiscrimination policy? “Canary Mission shared footage of UPenn Assistant Professor Mohammed Alghamdi wielding scissors as students took down images of Israelis who have been kidnapped by Hamas terrorists. Alghamdi is still listed as a professor on the university web page.”

ANTISEMITISM RUNS RAMPANT IN BLUE STATES: Jewish teacher hides in Queens high school as ‘radicalized’ students riot: ‘They want her fired.’

Hundreds of “radicalized” kids rampaged through the halls of a Queens high school this week for nearly two hours after they discovered a teacher had attended a pro-Israel rally — forcing the terrified educator to hide in a locked office as the teen mob tried to push its way into her classroom, The Post has learned.

The mayhem at Hillcrest High School in Jamaica unfolded shortly after 11 a.m. Monday in what students called a pre-planned protest over the teacher’s Facebook profile photo showing her at a pro-Israel rally on Queens Oct. 9 holding a poster saying, “I stand with Israel.”

“The teacher was seen holding a sign of Israel, like supporting it,” a senior told The Post this week.

“A bunch of kids decided to make a group chat, expose her, talk about it, and then talk about starting a riot.”

Hundreds of kids flooded into hallways and ran amok, chanting, jumping, shouting, and waving Palestinian flags or banners.

Who are these kids, and who taught them that this was okay? And will they be appropriately punished for what amounts to an attempted lynching?

Related: In red America, standing up for Israel isn’t controversial.

CHANGE: Switzerland to Ban Hamas as ‘Terrorist Organization’ and Support Israel’s ‘Right to Self-Defense.’

SKYNET SMILES: Pentagon Considering Letting Weaponized AI ‘Autonomously’ Kill Humans.

MUSK’S REVENGE: “Guess We’re Not Dead Yet”: New Traffic Data Shows Musk’s X Surpasses Instagram And Facebook.

PROJECT Q-STAR: OpenAI Tried to Fire Altman Because He Was About to Wake Up the Monster.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Voters See American Dream Slipping Out of Reach, WSJ/NORC Poll Shows: Fewer believe that anyone who works hard can get ahead.

he American dream—the proposition that anyone who works hard can get ahead, regardless of their background—has slipped out of reach in the minds of many Americans.

Only 36% of voters in a new Wall Street Journal/NORC survey said the American dream still holds true, substantially fewer than the 53% who said so in 2012 and 48% in 2016 in similar surveys of adults by another pollster. When a Wall Street Journal poll last year asked whether people who work hard were likely to get ahead in this country, some 68% said yes—nearly twice the share as in the new poll.

The survey offers the latest evidence that Americans across the political spectrum are feeling economically fragile and uncertain that the ladder to higher living standards remains sturdy, even amid many signs of economic and social progress.

Half of voters in the new poll said that life in America is worse than it was 50 years ago, compared with 30% who said it had gotten better. Asked if they believed that the economic and political system are “stacked against people like me,” half agreed with the statement, while 39% disagreed.

It’s only taken three years of Bidenomics to get this far. Where will we be if he gets four more years?

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY:

How it started: Losing Gordon Gekko. Wall Street has gone over to the Democrats. Should conservatives miss it?

—Kevin D. Williamson, NRO, February 19th, 2009.

How it’s going: Will New York Politicians Tax Wall Street Out of Existence?

—Stephen Moore, Hot Air, Thursday.

#JOURNALISM: Welcome to the Future of Climate Coverage, Where the Journalists Are the Activists: Covering Climate Now sells top journalists on plan to ‘transform media’ in response to climate ’emergency.’

AT AMAZON, Cyber Monday Deals. #CommissionEarned

DEMOCRATS ARE RETURNING TO THEIR SEGREGATIONIST ROOTS: Liberals Once Embraced Interracial Marriages Like Mine. What Changed? My wife is black. I’m white. When we got married in 2007, progressives cheered. Today, they wonder if I’m up to parenting my own kids.

Also, leftists are basically morons.

HE’S RIGHT OF COURSE: Joel Kotkin: The West cannot accept Gazan refugees. Unconstrained mass migration from dangerous regions would be disastrous for America.

The stunning victory of anti-Muslim Dutch politician Geert Wilders suggests that the nation of a proposed “Muslim ban”, temping down on immigration from Islamic countries, is no longer outside the realm of political discussion. This movement can only gain steam given the sometimes openly anti-Semitic protests by Muslims in support of the Hamas pogrom.

President Donald Trump’s crude tactic of using immigration policy to stop the migration of anti-American terrorists and their supporters into the United States has already established a precedent of sorts. Trump’s initial executive order included seven predominately Muslim nations – Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen – and later was expanded in 2020 to include Venezuela and others.

Trump’s ban was quickly dismissed by President Biden, but the drive against increasingly uncontrolled immigration is clearly gaining popular support, particularly in Europe. Left-of-center politicians like Biden are clueless about the political evolution taking place throughout the West. Rather than looking for ways to impose greater scrutiny over immigrations. Biden’s only discussion of a ban has been aimed at sometimes violent nationalist Israeli settlers: looking at what is happening on campuses and the streets, [that’s] hardly the biggest threat.

There are economic ramifications, of course, such as the cost of housing and caring for poor refugees forcing some cities, like New York, as well the UK to look for ways to send them elsewhere. But culture also plays a role. This has been made painfully clear during recent mass pro-Hamas demonstrations on college campuses, and on the streets of London, New York, and Paris. These protests were driven largely by Middle Eastern immigrants and students from the Middle East whose hatred of Israel and Jews in general has been incubated by universities.

Universities may need more tuition to pay their exploding bureaucracies but sovereign nations still have a choice on who to allow to reside or emigrate. We would be loath, rightfully, to allow white racists from South Africa, neo-Nazis, or operatives of North Korea into our countries.

Related: Dublin Sees Worst Rioting in Decades After Children Stabbed: Stores damaged, 34 people arrested in unrest following attack that injured three children.

Ireland witnessed its worst civil disorder in decades after rioters marauded through Dublin city center looting shops and setting buses and police cars on fire in a spate of violence that appeared to be triggered by a stabbing attack that injured three children.

Irish police said Friday that 13 shops were damaged and 34 people arrested following the riots, which followed the attack by an unidentified man outside a school on Thursday afternoon. Garda Commissioner Drew Harris said on Friday that he had not seen such levels of violence “for decades.” He added that it had been caused by a “lunatic, hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology.”

The police are still investigating the stabbing outside a school that left a five-year-old girl in critical condition. Two other children and two adults were also harmed. A man in his 50s was taken into custody, the Irish police said, declining to comment on his nationality or his motive.

Fiery but mostly peaceful anti-immigrant protests. Expect more.

OPEN THREAD: Enjoy.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Landspace aims to build a stainless steel rocket. “The Zhuque-3 (Vermillion Bird 3) will use stainless propellant tanks and clusters of Tianque methane-liquid oxygen propellant rocket engines, according to a presentation by Landspace CEO Zhang Changwu at the Mingyue Lake Aerospace Information Industry International Ecosystem Event in Chongqing, China, Nov. 21. The two-stage launcher will have a payload capacity of 20 metric tons to low Earth orbit (LEO) when expendable. Recovery of the first stage downrange will allow 16.5 tons to LEO, while a landing back at the launch site will offer a capacity of 11 tons to LEO. A render of the rocket shows grid fins and deployable landing legs on the first stage.”

This all sounds . . . familiar somehow.

WELL, GOOD: Exercising at The Same Time Each Day May Unlock Hidden Health Benefits.

HMM: Harnessing the Sea’s Hidden Energy: New Nano-Device Turns Seawater Into Electricity. Color me skeptical that this can be commercially deployed at scale, but I’d love to be wrong.

HMM: New type of bacterial infection could be behind recent dog illnesses.

MORE ELECTRICS: 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N First Drive.

ACTUALLY, AT MY THANKSGIVING WE TALKED ABOUT MY NIECE-IN-LAW’S RECENT ACQUISITION OF A .458 SOCOM RIFLE: Tell the Moms Demand Action Harpies at Your Thanksgiving Table to Shut Up and Eat Their Tofurky.

READER FAVORITE: Legendary Whitetails Men’s Buck Camp Flannel. #CommissionEarned

SO, OUTPERFORMING OUR POLITICIANS THEN: Even without brains, jellyfish learn from their mistakes.