HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UChicago Professor Sounds Alarm Over Troubling University Finances. “Assuming that the University nets $60,000 in revenue from each undergraduate, Ando calculated that the tuition of more than 3,300 undergraduates—nearly half the number in the College—would be needed to just service debt every year.”

EVERYTHING’S GOING SWIMMINGLY: Biden ignoring Pentagon, defense spending at pre-World War II levels. With our diplomacy and preparedness, those will one day be known as “pre-World War III levels.”

SHH, DON’T TELL THEM: Ruy Teixeira: The Progressive Youth Chimera. Once more, with feeling: “Demographics are not destiny.”

NO EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: NASA unveils the new X-59 ‘quiet’ supersonic jet today and you can watch live.

K-12 ELIMINATIONISM: Public School Maps Erasing Israel.

Sending your kids to public school is pretty much parental malpractice these days.

DON SURBER: The comic who can save America. Also: A reader gets beaten in NYC and the police don’t care.

PEOPLE DON’T GO WHERE THEY AREN’T WANTED: Army Sees Sharp Decline in White Recruits. Go around telling white people they’re the problem, they go somewhere else.

Related: The US Army discovers woke doesn’t win wars — but is it too late?

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: The Supreme Court on “Officer of the United States” as used in the Constitution.

STANDING UP AGAINST HATE AND BIGOTRY: Harvard Jewish students sue university over antisemitism: ‘Rampant anti-Jewish hatred and harassment.’

A group of Jewish students are suing Harvard University over “severe and pervasive” antisemitism on campus, claiming that Harvard has not done nearly enough to protect Jewish students since Hamas’ terrorist attacks in Israel.

The students filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts, alleging that Harvard is violating the civil rights of its Jewish students.

Harvard has been at the epicenter of the student campus clashes over the Hamas-Israel war since Oct. 7. In the days after the Hamas terrorist attacks, dozens of student groups wrote a letter that blamed Israel for the attacks.

Antisemitic incidents have been reported across the Cambridge campus. One notable incident involved pro-Palestinian protesters surrounding a Jewish student, which led to reports being filed with the FBI and Harvard Police. The U.S. Department of Education launched an investigation into Harvard University, and other schools, for possible civil rights violations since the war started.

“Harvard, America’s leading university, has become a bastion of rampant anti-Jewish hatred and harassment,” the students’ lawsuit states. “Since October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and slaughtered, tortured, raped, burned, and mutilated 1,200 people — including infants, children, and the elderly — antisemitism at Harvard has been particularly severe and pervasive.

“Mobs of pro-Hamas students and faculty have marched by the hundreds through Harvard’s campus, shouting vile antisemitic slogans and calling for death to Jews and Israel,” the lawsuit reads. “Those mobs have occupied buildings, classrooms, libraries, student lounges, plazas, and study halls, often for days or weeks at a time, promoting violence against Jews and harassing and assaulting them on campus.”

The university has failed to “lift a finger to stop and deter this outrageous antisemitic conduct and penalize the students and faculty who perpetrate it,” according to the students suing Harvard.

Harvard has chosen sides, even if that means creating a hostile educational environment.

More: Antisemitism Lawsuit Filed against Harvard University, Includes Allegations re Harvard Law School.

OPEN THREAD: Make me proud.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX targets February for third Starship test flight.

I’D STAY AND BE A TOURIST BUT I CAN’T TAKE THE GUNPLAY: Delivery driver shot on Chicago’s West Side; union says drivers are quitting over safety worries.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Cancer Is Striking More Young People, and Doctors Are Alarmed and Baffled.

MY DOC IS SUSPICIOUS OF THESE DRUGS: The FDA Is Investigating Potentially Serious Side Effects of Weight Loss Drugs.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE:

Here’s more of @AlaskaAir’s priorities! https://t.co/rZzeQx4l9l

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 11, 2024

But wait, there’s more:

Holy smokes this is terrifying. Female Air traffic controller argues with a pilot who’s been flying for 15 years about a landing and says she “googled it” so she’s right and knows best.

This happened at DTO, a small airport in Texas.

Who wants to bet she was a diversity hire?… pic.twitter.com/jyiXs2rLYT

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 11, 2024

sadly this is not surprising

the feds have been lowering standards for ATC (specifically to target white men) for some timehttps://t.co/918Icwq08M

— Gregg Re (@gregg_re) January 11, 2024

Every institution has been corrupted.

UPDATE:

Pilot Welcomes Passengers Aboard And Reassures Them He Was Not A Diversity Hire https://t.co/cW9fcl1YTB pic.twitter.com/dWekHmMXF6

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 11, 2024

ANOTHER UPDATE: Well, sure.

This is who I want flying my plane… pic.twitter.com/FChsTXwxL6

— Big Tom Callahan🇺🇸 (@CallahanAutoCo) January 11, 2024

21ST CENTURY EMPLOYMENT: Some Gen Z job seekers are bringing mom and dad to interviews, and it’s turning off employers, new survey finds. “Thirty-nine percent of the employers who responded said they prefer to hire older job seekers over recent college graduates, in part because young professionals don’t make a good first impression in job interviews. More than half of the employers said young recruits struggled to make eye contact during the interview, and 50% said they asked for unreasonable compensation. Almost half of the employers said a young job candidate showed up in inappropriate attire, and nearly 20% said a recent college grad had brought a parent to a job interview.”

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: An economic super-boom needs humanoid robots, not just human-level AI.

#JOURNALISM: Flashback: The Secret World of Charles Kuralt.

TYPICAL: Director of ‘Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence,’ Caught With Illegal Guns, Sentenced To Prison.

Flashback: Leland Yee, the Gun-Hating Calif. Pol. Accused of Helping Smuggle Guns, Agrees to Plea Deal.

LOSS OF TRUST: US verges on vaccination tipping point, faces thousands of needless deaths: FDA. Top regulatory officials call for clinicians to speak up and drown out misinformation.

SHOCKER: Panel members for new psychiatric ‘bible’ received more than $14M from industry, analysis finds. “Sixty percent of US physicians serving as panel and task force members for the American Psychiatric Association’s official manual of psychiatric disorders received payments from industry totaling $14.24m, finds a study published by The BMJ. Because of the enormous influence of diagnostic and treatment guidelines, the researchers say their findings ‘raise questions about the editorial independence of this diagnostic manual.'”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Surprise launch of Chinese satellite triggers missile attack alerts in Taiwan.

HMM: Study pinpoints how psychiatric drugs lead to weight gain.

CORRUPT AND DISHONEST: Why DEI Regime Cries Victim in Harvard-Claudine Gay Scandal: It can’t and won’t defend the politicization, corruption, and incompetence that flows naturally from its leftism, so it can only resort to smearing its critics.

DECLINE IS A CHOICE: We got too accustomed to peaceful seas: Say goodbye to the global ‘conveyor belt.’ “It’s somewhat ahistorical that the world’s oceans have been relatively painless to navigate in the second half of the 20th century, permitting trade to flow around the world. That was not the case for much of human history.”