HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Syracuse chancellor launches task force in wake of enrollment declines and financial deficit.

Instapundit readers may be able to think of some reasons why Syracuse is in trouble.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Syracuse student questions ‘value’ of degree as university misses enrollment target amid tuition hike, budget woes.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Syracuse University issues financial warning as admissions slump: We’re in the red.

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Offering the discounts wasn’t enough to attract a full class, and those who enrolled will be paying less the whole time they’re there.

“What students were telling us effectively was that they didn't believe what we were offering was worth what we were asking them today.” pic.twitter.com/hJwcBP1JSq

— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) June 12, 2026

Possibly a coincidence, but Syracuse has been regularly featured here as the home of absurd and nasty woke politics for years. Is it any wonder that so many students are fleeing south?

THE NOT SO FINAL COUNTDOWN: The Legacy of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth 20 Years Later.

In 1983, Michael Barkun, a professor at Syracuse University, identified the rise of a “New Apocalypticism” in American life. He described a secular variant of religious millenarianism — rooted not in scripture but instead in science, yet structurally identical in its essential features.

Barkun explained:

“The so-called “New Apocalypticism” is undeniably religious, rooted in the Protestant millenarian tradition. Religious apocalypticism is, however, not the only apocalypticism current in American society. A newer, more diffuse, but indisputably influential apocalypticism coexists with it. Secular rather than religious, this second variety grows out of a naturalistic world view, indebted to science and to social criticism rather than to theology. Many of its authors are academics, the works themselves directed at a lay audience of influential persons — government officials, business leaders, and journalists — presumed to have the power to intervene in order to avert planetary catastrophe.”

Gore’s orations perfectly followed the script of the “New Apocalypticism”: The identification of an existential crisis, the diagnosis of human sin as its cause, the urgency of transformation, and the comfort of redemption for those who heed the warning. The climate science community readily embracted this script and adopted the language of believers and deniers to differentiate those with faith and those yet to be converted, and who risked excommunication.

Barkun explained that scientific “predictions of “last things” generate the feelings of awe that have always surrounded eschatology, even if in this case the predictions often grow out of computer modelling rather than Biblical proof-texts.”

Gore was an extraordinarily skilled evangelist and he took his message to scientists on their own terms — with a PowerPoint presentation.

But even so, An Inconvenient Truth was not really about science; it was a sermon — complete with a moral arc (with those who are evil and those who are righteous), a clear account of sin (fossil fuel emissions), a warning of coming judgment (floods, storms, tipping points), and a path to redemption (political will, renewable energy, personal responsibility). The film ends with a call to conversion.

Scarcity for thee, but not for me. Gore’s credibility ended in 2013 with a really fat check from Middle East petrostate Qatar.

Al has sold Current, for the magnificent sum of $500-million, $100-million of which is his alone. Not bad for a TV station with less reach and inferior programming to most billboards.

To whom did the Lord of the Upper Atmosphere sell? Why to al Jazeera — which is to say, effectively to the ruler of Qatar, a wealthy country that has nothing else to sustain it but the sale of its huge petroleum resources.

Qatar is about oil, oil and more oil. It is a global warmer’s hell.

But what a paycheck! When Al Gore emerged from his energy-guzzling mansion to address the Senate in 2007 only to refuse to take his own energy reduction pledge from An Inconvenient Truth when presented to him by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Ann Coulter quipped, “I kind of respect him more, it shows he is not stupid enough to believe all this global warming nonsense. He’s trying to get us to believe. Okay, fine, he may be a hypocrite but at least he’s not a moron.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Syracuse to host second ‘Kink 101’ session during ‘Sexual Health Empowerment Month.’

JOEL KOTKIN: Mayors to Cities: Drop Dead.

Perhaps never in recent history have American cities so badly needed strong, pragmatic mayors—and gotten so few. Congressional Republicans, with few urban constituencies, won’t be of much help with mass transit or other city services; big cities will have to “go it alone.” But rather than realigning city budgets and working toward self-sufficiency, many mayors favor far-left policies on policing, rent control, education, and taxation that amount to what the late Fred Siegel described three decades ago as “a suicide of sorts.”

This autumn could well see a neo-socialist, Zohran Mamdani, win the mayor’s office in New York. In Minneapolis, a Mamdani clone, 35-year-old state senator Omar Fateh, won the endorsement of the dominant Democratic Farmer Labor Party (later rescinded, following allegations about voting irregularities at the party’s July convention). Leftists have also scored victories in smaller cities like Oakland, Cincinnati, Syracuse, Albany, and Buffalo. And Seattle, which suffered some of the most destructive effects from 2020’s “summer of love,” as its clueless then-mayor called it, appears likely to replace the moderates elected in the 2020 aftermath with a new slate of far-left politicians.

Cities cannot afford such choices. Today, major American metropolises constitute a smaller portion of the nation’s population than at any time in the past half century. Employment has steadily shifted away from cities since the 1950s. The production of great office towers, those temples of urban prominence, has fallen to levels a small fraction of those of the 1990s and may soon dip below the rate of spending on new data centers. According to the Financial Times, many global firms are planning to reduce their office footprints by between 10 percent and 20 percent. The industries that traditionally drive high-end employment, like finance and professional services, are also those most often receptive to remote or hybrid work.

I don’t think Walter Becker and Donald Fagen were referencing America’s big cities when they wrote, “Things may get a whole lot worse/Before suddenly falling apart.”

But they might as well have been.

NOW IT CAN BE TOLD: University Leaders Say ‘Organized Networks,’ Including Iran, Drove Anti-Israel Campus Unrest.

Several leaders of prominent universities on Monday said they believe the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic demonstrations that broke out on campuses across the United States during the Jewish state’s war against Hamas were not organic, instead telling a panel audience they believe “organized networks,” and even foreign governments, may have driven the unrest.

Leaders of notable U.S. universities had not offered many thoughts on the connections between campus protests and outside groups before Monday’s discussion on combating anti-Semitism. During the event, though, Syracuse University chancellor Kent Syverud brought up Iran in particular.

“I really believe [the demonstrations] were encouraged from Iran,” Syverud said. “It did not have the involvement of very many—if any—of our own students.”

Vanderbilt University chancellor Daniel Diermeier agreed, saying the anti-Israel movement on his campus seemed to have been coordinated by outside forces and followed a “playbook” that “was imported” from other universities.

“There was, not a large group, maybe 30-plus students or something, but they were using the playbook that they had seen at Columbia and other places,” he said. “It was the same messaging. So, it’s more than a social contagion. I think they’re organized networks as well.”

“Leaders of notable U.S. universities” certainly didn’t appear to do very much to stop the protests in the wake of October 7^th, however. As VDH wrote in December of 2023, “After October 7, the public was shocked at what they saw and heard on America’s campuses. Americans knew previously they were intolerant, leftwing, and increasingly non-meritocratic. But immediately after October 7 — and even before the response of the Israeli Defense Forces — the sheer student delight on news of the mass murdering of Israeli victims seemed akin more to 1930s Germany than contemporary America.”

CUTE – NOW TRY THAT IN A MOSQUE:  Syracuse students charged with hate crime after pork is tossed in Jewish frat on Rosh Hashana.

LIFE AFTER TELEVISION: TV expert reveals the next late-night host to get the boot after Kimmel suspension and who will be the last man standing.

Seth Meyers is the next late-night talk host to face the axe after Jimmy Kimmel‘s suspension, a TV expert has predicted.

Professor Robert Thompson, who founded the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, shared his gloomy forecast with the Daily Mail a day after Kimmel’s show was pulled over comments he made about Charlie Kirk.

‘There is a theme going on here,’ Thompson said, discussing Kimmel’s ‘indefinite’ suspension and the looming cancellation of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

He pointed to the clear shift away from the politically charged jokes of late-night hosts like Colbert, Kimmel and Meyers.

‘It could very well be that [Jimmy] Fallon is the last guy standing,’ Thompson said.

‘Meyers is the one guy doing this type of comedy who hasn’t been fired yet. These last stories indicate that era is over.

‘I can see a period in the very near future where Fallon is the last franchise left – the oldest franchise, at that.’

Thompson went on to compare Fallon’s ‘apolitical’ approach to that of late-night legends Johnny Carson and Jay Leno.

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If Kimmel doesn’t return to ABC, ‘NBC will be the only broadcast network with comedy people doing this type of format’ after Colbert departs CBS next year., Thompson said.

He added that linear television had already been deteriorating before the pandemic, and that for ‘all of the next generation who grew up watching Colbert and Kimmel, broadcast television isn’t the place for them.’

‘Substack and YouTube is where the action is and where the audiences are. Every decision made by legacy companies is indicating that.

Iowahawk issues a timely note as to what viewers are still using television to consume:

If we're all being honest the only thing people still watch on old timey 4-network TV is football

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) September 18, 2025

As always, be careful if you run into anyone who actually still gets their news from TV:

(Classical reference in headline.)

OUTRIGHT BIGOTRY IN HIGHER EDUCATION: ‘Thieves, Child Killers, Sexual Abusers, Thugs, Criminals’: Syracuse University Scholar, a Pulitzer Prize Winner, Goes on Tirade Against Israeli People.

FROM THE WHITE LOTUS TO SIRENS, WHY EVERYONE ON TV IS RICH: ‘You’re sold this American dream.’

Bob Thompson, the founding director of Syracuse University’s Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture and a Trustee Professor of Television and Popular Culture, told The Post that part of the appeal of these shows is, “just the fun of seeing this stuff we don’t have.”

“A lot of people used to go in the back of the New York Times Magazine and look at these ridiculously huge houses that were for sale,” he observed.

“I find it much more interesting to watch a series about an organized crime family, ‘The Sopranos’ or ‘The Godfather,’ than I would watching a series about somebody who lived the life I live on a daily basis.”

Thompson said that it’s also “easier” to have shows “in settings of the very rich and the very privileged, because it’s kind of an easy source of drama and spectacle.”

The professor and TV expert pointed out that one big reason for the explosion of wealth on TV is that, “in the last 25 years, since around the turn of the century, we’ve become comfortable with our principal characters being bad people.”

He explained that the trend is “relatively new,” because in the history of American TV, shows were usually, “about heroes, good guys. There were antagonists, but the [show] was about the protagonists getting the best of them.”

This trend began to change with the “golden age of TV” in the 2000s” with shows such as “The Sopranos,” “Breaking Bad,” “Mad Men” and “The Shield.”

“Oftentimes rich folks in at least a supposedly democratic culture, can be hard to portray sympathetically – because they’ve got all this stuff, they’re so privileged,” he said.

Television is escapism after all, and this isn’t all that new a development. In the 1980s, Miami Vice leaning hard on asset forfeiture laws meant that Sonny Crockett could simultaneously fight drug trafficking while posing as a small or medium-sized drug dealer, complete with a (seized) yacht, Ferrari, speedboat, and a seemingly endless supply of Armani and Hugo Boss sports jackets. The Cosby Show’s cast were always immaculately dressed while living in a million dollar Brooklyn brownstone. In England, David Suchet’s Poirot investigated murders that took place in incredibly stylish 1930s Le Corbusier-inspired modernist mansions.

PROFILES IN COURAGE: Texas Dem Who Fled State in Private Jet Compares Himself to Abraham Lincoln.

Texas state representative James Talarico (D.) compared himself to Abraham Lincoln while touting his party’s walkout to block Republican efforts to pass a new congressional map. But while the Great Emancipator attempted to break the quorum by jumping out of a window, Talarico did so by fleeing the Lone Star State in a private jet.

“We are in Illinois, and it’s appropriate because this is the land of Lincoln. And Abraham Lincoln actually broke quorum back in 1840 when he was a state senator by jumping out of the window of the Illinois state capitol,” Talarico said Tuesday on Pod Save America.

“Thankfully, I didn’t have to jump out of any windows in Texas, but we are joining a long tradition in America of standing up to bullies, of speaking truth to power, of causing good trouble,” the Democrat added. “And I know my colleagues and I are proud to do this work regardless of what consequences may come.”

But Talarico’s exit was far more luxurious than Lincoln’s leap. He was among the Texas Democrats who on Sunday boarded a 76-seat private jet operated by CommuteAir and flown out of a “state-of-the-art” private terminal at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, as the Washington Free Beacon reported. Talarico even announced the walkout from the tarmac.

The chartered flight likely cost around $30,000 and featured “comfortable 2×2 leather seating, two lavatories, ovens for hot meals, and two experienced flight attendants at your service.”

Isn’t the real story here that Lincoln is once again considered a good guy by the left? I’m so old, I can remember the last decade, when the woke left horseshoed alongside paleoconservatives to declare, like Cornpop before him, Lincoln was a very bad dude indeed, and thus his statues needed to be toppled everywhere:

● Calls to remove controversial Abraham Lincoln statue in Boston.

● Boston statue depicting a freed slave kneeling before Lincoln coming down.

● “Who would have guessed the author of the Gettysburg Address was a white supremacist?”

● “Not Pro-Black:” Wisconsin Students Unanimously Vote To Remove Lincoln Statue As Racist.

● Abraham Lincoln Statue Defaced at San Francisco City Hall.

● Lincoln statue must go, article in Syracuse student newspaper argues.

● Another Lincoln Statue In Jeopardy.

● UW-Madison student gov votes to remove Lincoln statue, a ‘remnant’ of ‘white supremacy.’

But hey, if the twin-Hitlers of the 21^st century, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney can be rehabilitated in service to the left, then why not Honest Abe as well?

At least until next year, when I’m sure he’ll be on the hate list again. Just ask Teddy Roosevelt.

‘TRUTH TO POWER:’ Democrats Prove the Point in Salty Tribute Tweets to Stephen Colbert.

When last we left you, it had been reported that the show was losing around $40 million a year, which, more than anything else, including alleged political considerations, would appear to explain why he, in essence, was handed his walking papers:

Puck News’ Matt Belloni reported the late-night show “has been losing more than $40 million a year” for CBS and that it had a budget of “more than $100 million per season,” contrasting it with network’s daytime and primetime programming, which he noted were “still profitable.”

“‘Late Show,’ with its topical humor and celebrity interviews pegged to specific projects, has struggled on Paramount+. And of the three network late-night shows, ‘Late Show’ has by far the smallest digital footprint on YouTube and other platforms,” Belloni wrote. “So from a business perspective, the cancellation makes sense.”

Belloni said the sources he spoke with at CBS and Skydance Media, the company that is set to buy the network’s parent company Paramount Global as part of an $8 billion merger, insist Colbert’s cancellation was “based on economics, not politics”….

Regardless, fauxfended Democrats are now on the case, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who appears to be conducting her own little investigation:

Yesterday morning, I rounded up tweets by Warren and loads of other Democrats and their operatives with bylines melting down that their late night network infomercial was being cancelled next year by CBS. Most were arguing that the network news division whose anchors once declared Barry Goldwater a crypto-Nazi, that George W. Bush shirked his duty in the Texas Air National Guard, and gave pro-Obamacare poetry readings on-air was bending the knee to the Bad Orange Man with an (R) after his name. Which is far more melodramatic than understanding that the network is trying to stop the hemorrhaging from, as Stacey Matthews writes above, a $40 million annual loss caused in by a combination of a lack of viewers, and those who are tuning having an advanced average age that makes them undesirable to television advertisers.

Here’s another, Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT):

In his Entertainment Weekly profile last year, Colbert compared himself to Walter Cronkite. Similarly, notice that Himes is comparing the CBS replacement for David Letterman (who Johnny Carson viewed as his successor in the late 1980s), to a widely-respected CBS news anchor from TV’s golden era rather than a comedian or late night host. Back in the previous decade, it was the man who gave Colbert his start who was often compared to Morrow, including this 2010 New York Times article co-written by Bill Carter (the author of several books on late-night TV) and (of course) Brian Stelter, who was then about 25-years old: In ‘Daily Show’ Role on 9/11 Bill, Echoes of Murrow.

There have been other instances when an advocate on a television show turned around public policy almost immediately by concerted focus on an issue — but not recently, and in much different circumstances.

“The two that come instantly to mind are Murrow and Cronkite,” said Robert J. Thompson, a professor of television at Syracuse University.

Edward R. Murrow turned public opinion against the excesses of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. Mr. Thompson noted that Mr. Murrow had an even more direct effect when he reported on the case of Milo Radulovich, an Air Force lieutenant who was stripped of his commission after he was charged with associating with communists. Mr. Murrow’s broadcast resulted in Mr. Radulovich’s reinstatement.

Walter Cronkite’s editorial about the stalemate in the war in Vietnam after the Tet Offensive in 1968 convinced President Lyndon B. Johnson that he had lost public support and influenced his decision a month later to decline to run for re-election.

I can already hear the gnashing of Media Myth Alert author Joseph Campbell’s teeth as he reads the above quoted paragraphs:

● Murrow ‘risked his career to confront demagogic Joe McCarthy’? Hardly.

● Murrow: No white knight–and not above the political fray.

● After the ‘Cronkite Moment,’ LBJ doubled down on Viet policy.

But setting the media myths aside, why was the successor to Chevy Chase’s SNL “Weekend Update” segment and why is the successor to David Letterman being compared to a serious newsman like Murrow?

Related: Stars No More: Colbert Treated ‘Journos’ and Dems Like Celebrities — No Wonder They’re So Upset!

UPDATE: Molly Jong-Fast: Cancelling CBS cancelling a low-rated late-night show is the equivalent of the blacklist or something:

Huh — I didn’t realize Colbert’s politics were that far to the left. Also, I don’t recall Les Crane, Dick Cavett, Tom Snyder, Joan Rivers, Pat Sajak or Arsenio Hall ever playing the blacklist card when their late night shows were cancelled due to poor ratings.

BIRTHRATES: Baby bonuses won’t solve the birthrate problem: Only culture, not cash, can spark a new boom in having kids.

Baby bonuses prove “costly and ineffective” almost everywhere they are tried, wrote Leonard Lopoo, a professor of public administration and international affairs at Syracuse University, in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed. Considering how expensive it can be to raise a child — roughly $300,000 over 18 years, according to a new LendingTree analysis — what difference is a relatively modest “baby bonus” going to make? The prospect of a government check might induce a couple already committed to parenthood to get pregnant a little sooner. But is it going to convince adults who don’t want a baby to change their minds? Hardly.

Government benefits and incentives may have some impact at the margins, but ultimately the only real strategy for reversing demographic decline is to change cultural norms surrounding marriage and child-rearing. That is the lesson from Israel, the one advanced country where the fertility rate remains far above replacement level, at more than 2.9 children per woman. All the factors that usually lead to falling birthrates are present in Israel: a rising cost of living, pronounced female participation in the workforce, high rates of education, easily accessible birth control, expensive housing. Yet fertility remains incredibly robust — not only among Israel’s most traditional and religious communities, but also among the far more numerous Israelis who live modern or secular lifestyles.

“The real secret to Israel’s fertility rates appears to be cultural,” wrote Danielle Kubes in Canada’s National Post in 2023. “The family is at the absolute center of Israeli life. Getting married and having kids is the highest cultural value.” It is a value that goes beyond religious observance and political ideology. It cannot be explained by government financial aid (welfare benefits in Israel are comparable to those in Western Europe). Rather, it boils down to this: Israelis of every stripe share a conviction that having children is the best and highest means of imbuing life with meaning.

Related: Harrison Butker, Harbinger: Life during and after the coming Demographic Winter.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Syracuse University website promotes ‘pagan-curious’ student group that practices ‘ritual’ and meets in university chapel.

IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH: MSNBC and CNN Fight to Dig Out of a Postelection Ratings Hole.

MSNBC averaged 603,000 prime-time viewers from the day after the election through Dec. 8, down by more than half from the network’s year-to-date average through the election, according to Nielsen data. CNN was down 46%, to 401,000 viewers. Meanwhile, Fox News was up 12%, averaging about 2.7 million viewers.

MSNBC and CNN both reported dips for the month following the 2016 election, but they weren’t nearly as steep. CNN’s drop was off a higher baseline.

Partisan viewers “turn away in disgust when it’s the other side having that postelection euphoria,” said Johanna Dunaway, a political science professor and research director of the Syracuse University Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship.

Dunaway said Democrats and Republicans grow disenchanted with the media and society when their candidates lose. After Biden won in 2020, Fox News’s prime-time viewership fell by 6%. Following Barack Obama’s 2012 win against Mitt Romney in the presidential election, Fox News’s prime-time viewership was down 13%.

Nobody wants to lose 13% or even just 6% of their business. But Fox’s 2012 and 2020 losses were a drop in the ratings bucket compared to CNN and MSNBC this year.

EVERY JOT AND TITTLE: What prompted the journey of Rosaria Butterfield, former tenured Syracuse University English Literature and Women’s Studies professor, from Lesbian activist and angry atheist to happily married mother, grandmother and Christian?

Whatever you think about where she ended up, you’ve got to admit the country would be in far better shape if more lefty academics embarked on the same journey to leave totalitarian activism behind.

WELL, YES: Hunter Biden is His Father’s Son. “Hunt has a better pedigree than Joe — Yale Law, not Syracuse. And, credit where it’s due, he’s highly appealing to a certain kind of young lady. (For a while this was the kind who planned to read her Yeats just as soon as the cocaine ran out. Eventually even those girls got wise to Hunter and he moved to a more transactional type.) But Hunter’s defining attribute is his selfishness.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Convicted killer spotted at Hamas-endorsed Syracuse University encampment before being arrested. Despite concerns raised to the Syracuse administration, Warren has been at the encampment several times since April 29.

MESSAGE: I DON’T CARE. Despite Police Pushback, Biden Presses On With Visit To Syracuse After Two Cops Were Just Slain.

JOE BIDEN SAYS A LOT OF THINGS: Joe Biden Says His Fellow Syracuse 1Ls Gave Him A Standing Ovation In Their First Torts Class.

WHAT’S GOING ON WITH SYRACUSE? Syracuse microaggressions workshop: Looking at a service animal could be ‘micro-assault.’

ADMINISTRATORS — NOT JUST DEI ADMINISTRATORS — ARE THE BIGGEST THREAT TO FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS

But DEI admins are surely a BIG part of the problem, too:

• After tenured University of Central Florida professor Charles Negy tweeted about racial issues, the school issued a statement signed by the president, provost, and chief equity, inclusion and diversity officer condemning the tweets and opening an investigation into Negy.
• Yale Law’s associate dean of student affairs and director of diversity, equity, and inclusion repeatedly summoned a law student to meetings and pressured him to apologize for sending a lighthearted party invitation that used the term “trap house” because it was considered “pejorative and racist.”
• Loyola University New Orleans repeatedly subjected a professor to investigations and assigned him a DEI coach because of his protected in-class and extramural speech.
• After aUniversity of California, Los Angeles music professor showed his class the 1965 film version of Othello (in which Laurence Olivier wears skin-darkening makeup), a dean reportedly sent a department-wide email saying the professor’s that the incident had been reported to the Office of Equity, Civil Rights, and Title IX.
• Also at UCLA, after a student complained about a professor reading MLK, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” which includes racial slurs, UCLA referred the matter to its Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for review.
• Syracuse University adopted new policies to hold bystanders responsible for “bias-related incidents” and “hate speech.” The chief of diversity and inclusion said that bystanders “can be held accountable,” and directed students to report incidents either to the school’s Office of Equal Opportunity, Inclusion and Resolution Services or anonymously through its bias reporting policy. Requiring bystanders to be speech police is truly worthy of the name Orwellian.
• A University of California System “guidance document” written by its council of chief diversity officers appeared to instruct students and faculty about how they may talk about the coronavirus (e.g., “Do not use terms such as “Chinese Virus.”).
• In 2023, Stanford Law School (my alma mater) students shouted down 5th Circuit Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan when he attempted to speak at a student-sponsored event. This was after long meetings with DEI administrators and after a precisely ten minute shout down then-Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Tirien Steinbach got up and gave a truly cringeworthy seven minute speech wondering if the “juice” of free speech and of having a 5th circuit judge speak to law students was “worth the squeeze.” The Stanford Law School incident earned its own chapter in “Canceling” as demonstrating the full power of the Perfect Rhetorical Fortress.

LOL. IT’S NOT BECAUSE SHE’S BLACK, IT’S BECAUSE SHE’S AWFUL. Syracuse prof claims critiques of Claudine Gay are rooted in bigotry against black women.

If you’re not allowed to criticize black women in positions of authority, then we shouldn’t have black women in positions of authority.

Also, why is Syracuse such a hotbed of woke dumbassery?

DO THE LETTERS F.O. MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU? Woke Mob Goes After Jerry Seinfeld. “The protestors, who gathered outside the Landmark Theatre in downtown Syracuse, chanted that Seinfeld is “complicit in genocide” against the Palestinians and demanded an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas as well as an end to all U.S. aid to Israel. Police officers were deployed to ensure that ticket-holders could safely enter the theater. Seinfeld, who is Jewish, posted an image that read ‘I Stand With Israel’ on Instagram after Hamas terrorists murdered and kidnapped hundreds of Israeli civilians in a surprise invasion on Oct. 7.”

Mock them mercilessly. Hamas is a bunch of nasty terrorist losers, and is losing, which is why its lame supporters are begging comedians for a ceasefire.

Related: Banned on the Run: Hamas Leaders Flee Qatar? Loooserrrs.