Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
December 6, 2023
OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY DENIES THAT IT’S IN A “HUGE FINANCIAL CRISIS.” Well, wait until the verdict in Prof. Scott Gerber’s lawsuit. . . .
OUT: I AM STRONG, I AM INVINCIBLE, I AM WOMAN! IN: President Of LGBTQ Advocate Group Says Women Should ‘Learn To Lose Gracefully’ To Trans Competitors.
I THINK SHE’S OUT OF TOUCH WITH HER PARTY:
100% disqualifying. https://t.co/FqnW9eaM8h
— Matt Rinaldi (@MattRinaldiTX) December 5, 2023
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS ON TOP OF ITS GAME AS USUAL: Kirby: We Need Another Pause to Get 8 American Hostages Out of Gaza. “And why would that be, precisely? Could it be that Joe Biden somehow failed to negotiate their release during the first operational ‘pause’ that he took credit for brokering last month? . . . That certainly sounds suspicious. Hanlon’s Razor could apply here, in which we shouldn’t presume malevolence when incompetence can fully explain a failure. Biden and his team abandoned 14,000 Americans to the Taliban while bugging out of Afghanistan in August 2021, so we have ample precedent for this kind of disgraceful disregard for American lives by Biden et al. What this looks like, however, is Biden and his team using American hostages as leverage on Israel, manipulating American public opinion to force them into bad deals and eventually a solve-nothing cease-fire that allows Hamas to survive and rebuild … again.”
Nothing says that you can’t be both evil and incompetent.
WHERE WE ARE NOW:
Of course the red lights are flashing.
The withdrawal from Afghanistan gave terror a base of operations and showed the world we will cut and run.
The war Hamas launched has inflamed tensions across the Middle East and the world.
Iran and their proxies are threatening global… https://t.co/wvMTMDf93e
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) December 5, 2023
Of course, the FBI is busy investigating Catholic churches.
LIKE A KURT SCHLICHTER NOVEL: UCSD’s Marxist-inspired Che Café accused of being haven for sexual predators.
RED GUARDS: Report indicates leftist Stanford students ‘blacklisted’ profs for not complying with woke academic accommodations in 2020. “A new report suggests that Stanford University students, acting in pursuit of racial and social justice, emailed hundreds of professors during the COVID-19 pandemic, demanding they lower academic standards and blacklisted them if they chose not to comply.”
“Acting in pursuit of racial and social justice.” Lol.
IN THE MAIL: The Comfort Women Hoax: A Fake Memoir, North Korean Spies, and Hit Squads in the Academic Swamp.
Related: History Has An Ideology Problem. I mean, you don’t have to make things up to make WWII Japan look bad.
CHANGE: Columbia U Shuts Down Pro-Hamas ‘Counteroffensive’ Rally. I know they’re only doing this because of outside pressure, but it’s still notable that they’re doing it. Normally only right-wing student groups get shut down like this.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Disinformation starts at the top — with America’s elites.
WELL, BYE: WaPo Guild Walks Off Job on December 7th. A day that will live in famy.
PUSHBACK CONTINUES:
The presidents of @Harvard, @MIT, and @Penn were all asked the following question under oath at today’s congressional hearing on antisemitism:
Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?
The… pic.twitter.com/eVlPCHMcVZ
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) December 5, 2023
Related: Higher Education: A Toxic Industry.
Also: John McGinnis: Addressing the Rot in Our Universities. “DEI offices will always put the worst interpretation on any remark that may conceivably offend a minority—unless the remark is about Jews, and especially Israelis. In that case, they will put an innocent interpretation on even the most offensive remark.”
BEST AND BRIGHTEST: Anti-police rants by top Interior aide cited in poor morale and low staffing of park police officers.
At least the college kids who are uttering these sophomoric rants are literally sophomores.
21ST CENTURY RACISM: Kendi: White People Can’t Connect to Humanity.
I remember when eliminationist rhetoric was supposed to be bad.
ELECTORAL INTERFERENCE COLLUSION: Bombshell: Jim Jordan Claims Fulton County DA Fani Willis Colluded With J6 Committee to Indict Trump.
TO BE FAIR, IT WAS NEVER ABOUT HELPING BLACK PEOPLE: Black People Never Wanted to Defund the Police.
The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.
THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE SATIRE:
Jews Advised To Protect Themselves From Violence By Not Being Jewish https://t.co/JcMzRoh4WS pic.twitter.com/vu8vgKJAyL
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) December 5, 2023
I MEAN, HE’S NOT WRONG: Higher Ed Has Become a Threat to America: Our corrupt, radical universities feed every scourge from censorship and crime to antisemitism.
America faces a formidable range of calamities: crime out of control, borders in chaos by design, children poorly educated while sexualized and politicized against parental opposition, unconstitutional censorship, a press that does government PR rather than oversight, our institutions and corporations debased in the name of “diversity, equity and inclusion”—and more. To these has been added an outbreak of virulent antisemitism.
Every one of these degradations can be traced wholly or in large part to a single source: the corruption of higher education by radical political activists.
Children’s test scores have plummeted because college education departments train teachers to prioritize “social justice” over education. Censorship started with one-party campuses shutting down conservative voices. The coddling of criminals originated with academia’s devotion to Michel Foucault’s idea that criminals are victims, not victimizers. The drive to separate children from their parents begins in longstanding campus contempt for the suburban home and nuclear family. Radicalized college journalism departments promote far-left advocacy. Open borders reflect pro-globalism and anti-nation state sentiment among radical professors. DEI started as a campus ruse to justify racial quotas. Campus antisemitism grew out of ideologies like “anticolonialism,” “anticapitalism” and “intersectionality.”
Never have college campuses exerted so great or so destructive an influence. Once an indispensable support of our advanced society, academia has become a cancer metastasizing through its vital organs. The radical left is the cause, most obviously through the one-party campuses having graduated an entire generation of young Americans indoctrinated with their ideas.
And there are other ways. Academia has a monopoly on training for the most influential professions. The destructive influence of campus schools of education and journalism already noted is matched in the law, medicine, social work, etc. Academia’s suppression of the Constitution causes still more damage. Hostility to the Constitution leads to banana-republic shenanigans: suppression of antigovernment speech, the press’s acting as mouthpiece for government, law enforcement used to harass opponents of the government.
Higher education by and for political radicals was foreseen and banned by the American Association of University Professors, which in a celebrated 1915 policy statement warned teachers “against taking unfair advantage of the student’s immaturity by indoctrinating him with the teacher’s own opinions.”
Yeah, I doubt you’d get that statement through the AAUP today. Plus: “An advanced society can’t tolerate the capture of its educational system by a fringe political sect that despises its Constitution and way of life.”
Related: Higher Education: A Toxic Industry.
December 5, 2023
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Disinformation starts at the top — with America’s elites.
CHRIS WRAY LIES TO CONGRESS:
Josh Hawley is fed up with Chris Wray:
"You said we do not go to priests and ask them about their parishioners. You said we do not. You didn't say we haven't. You didn't say we won't. You said we don't. It turns out you do." pic.twitter.com/UKuEVTYhjK
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) December 5, 2023
Ya think Merrick Garland will prosecute him?