GOOD: Fall Out From Antisemitism At NYU And UC-Berkeley Law Schools.

HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: Harvard University faces federal civil rights investigation for antisemitism amid Israel-Hamas war.

The U.S. Department of Education has added Harvard University to its list of schools that are under investigation for possible civil rights violations as students have reported antisemitic incidents amid the Israel-Hamas war.

The Cambridge campus is now under the federal microscope for potential discrimination following antisemitism complaints since Hamas’ terrorist attacks on Oct. 7.

One notable incident on campus involved pro-Palestinian protesters surrounding a Jewish student, which led to reports being filed with the FBI and Harvard Police.

On Tuesday, Harvard was added to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights list of the higher education and K-12 institutions under investigation for alleged shared ancestry violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Title VI prohibits race, color, or national origin discrimination, including harassment based on a person’s shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics.

Good.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Meet the Senior CIA Official Who Posted Pro-Palestinian Images to Social Media.

ONE OF MANY: One Example of How Media Creates Racial Panic.

MARK JUDGE: Christopher Hitchens and the collapse of journalism and critical thinking.

FEMINIST HYPOCRISY: Women’s Groups Silent As Rape Is Used As an Act of War.

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OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China makes progress on Raptor-like engines for super heavy rocket.

TOXIC INDUSTRY: New Research: Higher Education Linked to Increased Risk of Depression and Anxiety.

MY DOC IS VERY DOWN ON THESE DRUGS: These people experienced complications from weight-loss drugs. Here’s what it’s like. “Stomach paralysis, gastrointestinal illness and suicidal thoughts are just a few of the problems patients have dealt with.”

SKYNET STROLLS: A sensing paw that could improve the ability of legged robots to move on different terrains.

HMM: Ford Scales Back Michigan Battery Plant Investments.

ELON WINS ONE: Labor board dismisses claim that Tesla fired workers over union organizing. “The labor board official, however, found merit to two separate claims that Tesla maintained an unlawful rule on the acceptable use of technology in the workplace and solicited grievances from workers in an attempt to thwart support for the union, NLRB spokeswoman Kayla Blado said on Monday. If Tesla does not settle those claims, the NLRB will issue a complaint against the company that will be heard by an administrative judge, Blado said.”

More possible grist for a Supreme Court case on whether administrative law judges are constitutional.

2020? When should you come out of Covid isolation? Experts weigh in.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: New Jersey Teachers Union: Not Only Do We Not Want Basic Skills Test For the Children We Supposedly Teach, We Want An End to Basic Skills Tests for Teachers, Too.

PIRACY: Zim container ship diverts as threat to Israel-linked vessels mounts. Somebody is behind this. I’ll bet the Israelis know who.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, CAMPUS ANTI-SEMITISM EDITION: NY Times Op-Ed: Universities (And Law Schools) Are Failing At Inclusion

Universities are supposed to be centers of inquiry and curiosity — places where people are tolerant of difference and learn about other points of view. Instead, too many have become brutalizing ideological war zones, so today the most hostile place to be an American Jew is not at some formerly restricted country club but on a college campus.

How on earth did this happen? I’ve been teaching on college campuses off and on for 25 years. It’s become increasingly evident to me that American adolescence and young adulthood — especially for those who wind up at elite schools — now happen within a specific kind of ideological atmosphere.

It centers on a hard-edged ideological framework that has been spreading in high school and college, on social media, in diversity training seminars and in popular culture. The framework doesn’t have a good name yet. It draws on the thinking of intellectuals ranging from the French philosopher Michel Foucault to the critical race theorist Derrick Bell.

Well, David — yes, this is David Brooks pointing out the obvious — some of us have been warning about this for over two decades. Welcome to the party, pal.

SQUATS AND LUNGES FIXED MY KNEE PAIN 20 YEARS AGO: Building up thighs may prevent knee replacement. Mostly squats, though I did a lot of lunges initially. It has never come back.

YES: Disrupt Violent Left-Wing Networks. With the active encouragement of the media, the left operates in a culture of impunity. This must stop.

AN INSTINCT FOR THE CAPILLARY: Liz Warren Demands Probe of ‘Sandwich Shop Monopoly.’

YES:

In certain respects societies and cultures resemble neural networks, which produce outputs from inputs through a process of weights. They learn from data to adjust the weights.

Sucessful societies learn to do it globally right, but dysfunctional ones are systematically wrong.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) November 28, 2023

REMINDER: While Hamas Planned Its Attack on Israel, Biden’s Intel Community Was Focused On Climate Change.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Fed up with horrible student discipline, states bring back suspensions, expulsions. But progressives are unhappy.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: 64 US Banks Shut Down in One Week. Did You Notice?