NICK KRISTOF: The Liberal Blind Spot. “On campuses at this point, illiberalism is led by liberals. The knee-jerk impulse to protest campus speakers from the right has grown so much that even Democrats like Madeleine Albright, the first female secretary of state, have been targeted. . . . Frankly, the torrent of scorn for conservative closed-mindedness confirmed my view that we on the left can be pretty closed-minded ourselves.”

Well, yes.

Plus: “When a survey finds that more than half of academics in some fields would discriminate against a job seeker who they learned was an evangelical, that feels to me like bigotry.”

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ANTI-AMERICAN HATE CRIME: Vietnam War Memorial Wall In Venice Tagged With Graffiti.

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DIVERSITY! Report: Harvard Law Prof Hid Liberal Views To Chair Hiring Committee And ‘Heavily Influence Hiring Critical Race Theorists.’

How far left do you have to be, to have to lie about how left you are at Harvard Law?

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN: Veterans Sites Looted, Damaged, Defaced around the Country.

WE NEED BETTER ANTIBIOTICS, ALONG WITH BETTER ANTIBIOTIC-ALTERNATIVES: Infection Raises Specter of Superbugs Resistant to All Antibiotics.

American military researchers have identified the first patient in the United States to be infected with bacteria that are resistant to an antibiotic that was the last resort against drug-resistant germs.

The patient is well now, but the case raises the specter of superbugs that could cause untreatable infections, because the bacteria can easily transmit their resistance to other germs that are already resistant to additional antibiotics. The resistance can spread because it arises from loose genetic material that bacteria typically share with one another.

“Think of a puzzle,” said Dr. Beth Bell, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “You need lots of different pieces to get a result that is resistant to everything. This is the last piece of that puzzle, unfortunately, in the United States. We have that genetic element that would allow for bacteria that are resistant to every antibiotic.”

The bacteria are resistant to a drug called colistin, an old antibiotic that in the United States is held in reserve to treat especially dangerous infections that are resistant to a class of drugs called carbapenems. If carbapenem-resistant bacteria, called CRE, also pick up resistance to colistin, they will be unstoppable.

“This is huge,” said Dr. Lance Price, a researcher at George Washington University. “We are one step away from CRE strains that cannot be treated with antibiotics. We now have all the pieces in place for it to be untreatable.”

I don’t want to live in a world where antibiotics don’t work.

THOUGHTS ON LAW SCHOOL DIVERSITY, from Ann Althouse.

As for why law professors should care about this, some thoughts from Jonathan Adler:

The university’s ideological tilt, combined with its intolerance, cannot but place higher education in an even more precarious place. After all, how long will taxpayers in red states be willing to subsidize universities that appear to be their ideological enemies? In a politically polarized nation, why subsidize the other side?

Recent events in Wisconsin — where Gov. Scott Walker (R) and the state legislature have slashed state funding, frozen tuition and weakened tenure — may be an augur of things to come. Financial pressures are part of the cause, but the widespread perception that universities do more to encourage progressive activism than to prepare students for successful careers are surely part of the mix as well. After all, it is easier to support spending on higher education when academic institutions are seen to serve the public at large.

Ideological intolerance is a threat to liberal education. In time, it may be a threat to educational institutions as well.

Mizzou is a harbinger. The wise will learn from its example; the unwise will become examples themselves.

TELLING THE STORY OF WORLD WAR II IN 10 MOVIES: I’d add the Longest Day to this list; even after Saving Private Ryan, it holds up quite well.

What’s your favorite WWII movie?

WHY SO SERIOUS? How to be Funny When You’re Running an RPG — Moe Lane’s latest article at the PJ Lifestyle section.

LISA DE PASQUALE: Hollywood Boobs: Actresses Beg to Be Taken Seriously, But Can’t Quit Temptation of the Flesh.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. In a World of Self-Driving Cars, We’ll Still Need the Miata.

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I’M STICKING WITH THE “BAD GOULASH” THEORY: Bad weather may explain Mongols’ sudden retreat from Hungary in 1242.

IT’S MY SPORT UTE, ISN’T IT? I KNEW IT! Mars is finally emerging from an ice age that ended 400,000 years ago.

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THE MIRACULOUS EXPLOSION OF HUMAN PROGRESS IN THE PAST TWO CENTURIES:

“The Great Enrichment of the past two centuries has one primary source: the liberation of ordinary people to pursue their dreams of economic betterment.” How very odd then that the Progressives are so sure that the only route to a better world is for enlightened leaders like themselves to control and regulate the economy, and the people. (As I just said, they really don’t understand cause and effect).

Of course, to paraphrase the Professor, “The Miraculous Explosion of Human Progress in the Past Two Centuries” contains insufficient opportunities for grafters on the make when properly left to its own devices. And as Richard Fernandez recently wrote, “We expect revolutionaries to be indifferent to money. Yet in reality the Left thinks about nothing but money…the ambition of all true Communists should be to become billionaire revolutionaries.”

Or as Glenn noted in USA Today recently, “It is a common misconception that socialism is about helping poor people. Actually, what socialism does is create poor people, and keep them poor. And that’s not by accident. Under capitalism, rich people become powerful. But under socialism, powerful people become rich. When you look at a socialist country like Venezuela, you find that the rulers are fabulously wealthy even as the ordinary citizenry deals with empty supermarket shelves and electricity rationing.”

I’M EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: First look at Navy’s experimental railgun that can fire at 4,500 miles an hour.