WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTISEMITISM? House committee opens investigation into Rutgers University over ‘pervasiveness of antisemitism on its campuses.’

SKED FOR THIS AFTERNOON AT 1:37 PM ET: United Launch Alliance to launch final Delta Heavy IV rocket March 29. Here’s how to watch live. “In addition to the Delta IV Heavy, ULA plans on retiring another one of its rockets: The workhorse Atlas V. The idea is to make way for the company’s new Vulcan Centaur, which launched on its first mission on Jan. 8, 2024 when it sent Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander moonward. The Atlas V will keep flying through 2029, however, as it is already booked for missions to help develop Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet constellation and send Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule to the International Space Station on its first launch, slated for no earlier than May 1.”

Deltas and Atlases have a great history, but both rockets are older than me. The future is elsewhere.

GEORGE KORDA ON the education situation.

CHANGE: New Georgia Voting Rules Approved. “While there are plenty of people talking about improving election security, Georgia appears to be doing something about it. Just in time for this year’s elections, the Georgia legislature has passed reforms that will impact access to the presidential ballot. They have also altered the rules defining the criteria for being able to submit a ballot and how ballots can be challenged. Ballot challenges will be under strict scrutiny this year with more people expected to be monitoring the process from each party, particularly in swing states like Georgia. The measure has been sent to Republican Governor Brian Kemp, who is expected to sign it into law. Needless to say, many Georgia Democrats are not happy about this.” Of course they’re not. It makes cheating harder.

Also: Shocking Court Ruling Says Ballots Must Be Signed and Dated.

NOBODY CONDESCENDS MORE, WITH LESS BASIS FOR CONDESCENSION: Liberal Media Scream: Condescending ‘Really?’ to Rubio’s wish to be Trump VP.

“INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE.” BUT FOLLOW THE SCIENCE! Biden Admin Could Use ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ To Kill Critical Mining Project.

THE TIMES LOOKS BACK ON COVID: “The New York Times looks back on covid, four years down the road, and says ‘Here’s what we’ve learned.’ I would say we have learned some things that the Times doesn’t touch, like the idiocy of shutting down stores, businesses, churches and, especially, schools. But admitting that would be a bridge too far for the Times. Even on the lessons the Times acknowledges, you sometimes have to read between the lines.”

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: My chat (+transcript) with Spencer Weart on the history of nuclear energy fear.

Interesting, but missing here is that as the Vietnam War ended, activists turned to the anti-nuclear movement — in some sense created it — in order to preserve the infrastructure, and fundraising, that had been created for the Vietnam antiwar movement. The issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution. And the grift. Always the grift.

A NEW RULE: Tennessee Generally Bans Political and Religious Discrimination by Financial Institutions.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The War at Stanford. “We’re only in our third week of college, and we’re afraid to be here.”

KAROL MARKOWICZ: Your Jewish friends have a side group chat: We didn’t want to burden you but now you don’t know how bad it’s gotten.

IT’S CALLED “MY TRUTH.”

I rhetorically asked the question: "What happens to intellectuals, when after rejecting God, they reject atheism? Where is there left to go?"

The answer? To a pre-rational state of being, a private internal world, the “life of feeling”.https://t.co/hYZkhlzkKp

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 28, 2024

BIDEN IS LBJ NOW, BUT WITH NO HUBERT HUMPHREY:

I love how Biden’s protests have more people than a Biden rally 😂😂

— Meme’nOnLibs (@MemeNonLibs) March 29, 2024

And RFK Jr. is playing the role of RFK Sr.

OPEN THREAD: Here we go again.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China adds new moon base project partners, but struggles to attract national-level participation.

JOHN HINDERAKER: The Case for Secession. “Might a state like Texas legitimately decide that the federal government has so abandoned its duties under the Constitution that it has no alternative but to remove itself from the Union, and vindicate its citizens’ rights itself? I think such a decision, given the enormity of the issue of illegal immigration, would indeed be legitimate. Whether it would be well-advised is a question that should, in my view, be open for debate.”

Competent national leadership would never get us to a place where people are debating this, but our ruling class is happily playing Civilizational Jenga.

NOT BY ACCIDENT: The implosion of the ‘typical American family.’

Flashback: Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.

GOOD FOR HIM: Dave Portnoy Raises $1.5M for Family of Slain NYPD Officer. A few years ago he would have been targeted for cancellation for this.

21ST CENTURY PROSPECTING: 5,000 comets now identified, thanks to European Space Agency’s SOHO spacecraft.

A WHIFF OF TENSION: Dogs can detect trauma stress by smelling humans’ breath, study shows.

A FAILURE THEY’RE DOING THEIR BEST TO MEMORY-HOLE: Pandemic school closures, 4 years later. “Cooper and Cohen relied heavily on CDC guidance, as did the Toolkit, yet that guidance would come into question a little under two years when a Congressional committee found the CDC had allowed the American Federation of Teachers to rewrite key portions of school reopening guidance that had kept most schools closed. In some cases, the CDC had used AFT’s suggestions nearly verbatim.”

Every institution has been corrupted.

I DON’T WANT TO KNOW: Driving along … and the roadway vanishes beneath you. What’s it like to survive a bridge collapse?

THEY’RE LIKE GERMANS IN WWII: Poll: 71% of Palestinians Support October 7 Massacre, Majority Wants Hamas Returned to Power in Gaza.

And Gaza is no more a “humanitarian crisis” than Hamburg or Schweinfurt were.

IT’S ALL JUST A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY REPEATING: Vinyl records outsold CDs for the second year running.

BRIAN TRANSEAU, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Why some types of music make people want to dance more than others.