I’LL TELL YOU ONE THING THAT HASN’T HAPPENED TO LENA DUNHAM: She hasn’t gotten on the Ozempic fad.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Hampshire College to close after years-long turnaround effort comes up short. “The closure announcement comes a little over a month after Hampshire’s accreditor, the New England Commission of Higher Education, warned that the institution was at risk of being put on probation or losing accreditation entirely over concerns that it lacked sufficient resources. . . . Hampshire was founded in 1965 as — in Chrisler’s words — a home for ‘deeply curious, creative people who have radically reimagined the liberal arts.'”

The original hippie hot-tub college, unsustainable in the end.

If only there had been some sort of warning.

Related: Chris Rufo takes a victory lap.

Hampshire College made a big deal about offering spots to all of the left-wing New College of Florida students who wanted to leave after we eliminated their DEI and gender studies programs. Now Hampshire College is shutting down—go woke, go broke. https://t.co/F6TdxoFFxL

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) April 14, 2026

Plus:

⚡️The American university system is the largest wealth transfer from the young to the old in human history and nobody frames it that way because the people who benefit from it control the framing.

Eighteen year olds who can’t legally buy a beer are signing six figure debt… https://t.co/Y39yaMb05T

— SightBringer (@_The_Prophet__) April 13, 2026

IT’S A REAL CONUNDRUM:

“The Supreme Court banned race discrimination in college admissions and Asian acceptance rates increased. I have no idea how these two might be related. I am a reporter.” https://t.co/2cxz9KbYVh pic.twitter.com/IyOkoKg4E9

— Kane 謝凱堯 (@kane) April 14, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

THE NEW SPACE (INVESTMENT) RACE: Space investing is heating up as SpaceX rockets toward a record-breaking IPO.

HMM: Marriage Linked to Lower Cancer Risk In Study of 4 Million Cases.

THEY KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DOING AND THEY KNOW WHAT HE IS:

This is an absolutely disastrous moment for American liberalism because their top public intellectual just said they should embrace open communists who support mass killings and political terrorism.

I compiled a video showing 65 times Hasan Piker endorsed political killings and… pic.twitter.com/jA6mrUmvzR

— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) April 14, 2026

WHEN CAN I TELEPORT TO BORA BORA FOR THE AFTERNOON? Quantum Reality Gets Stranger: Physicists Put a Lump of Metal in Two Places at Once.

WEREN’T THESE ALWAYS CLASSIC SIGNS OF CONCUSSION? A child’s headache, dizziness and mental fog now stand out as the clearest concussion red flags.

THE E.V. BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Volkswagen Ending Production of ID4 in U.S., Future of EVs Unclear.

THE POORS’ LIVES DON’T MATTER: Elitist Chicago Doc: Average Citizens Don’t Need Armed Self-Defense Because the Poor ‘Don’t Benefit’ From Guns.

I GIVE IN-PERSON EXAMS WITH NO INTERNET ACCESS: To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain.

But it’s widely used for assignments — especially among undergraduates.

CATS: IS THERE ANYTHING THEY CAN’T DO? Cats are opening a powerful new front in the fight to understand virus-caused cancer.

REPORTERS AND HEALTH BUREAUCRATS ARE PRETTY MUCH ALLIED AGAINST PEOPLE DOING THE RIGHT THING: Reporters and health bureaucrats attack Dr. Jay Bhattacharya for doing the right thing (again).

NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Truth About “Non Toxic” Cookware.

CDR SALAMANDER: Bring Rainier and Bridge out of Reserve …the Other Sal makes my argument for me.

THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO SHOW UP:

The childbearing gap between liberals and conservatives is absolutely exploding and has now reached 2 to 1 among women 25-35. In 1980, there was hardly any difference.

Conservative fertility actually increased over 40 years, showing the power of pronatal culture on one side! https://t.co/JQapX2ya7P pic.twitter.com/KGVUNDQnAO

— More Births (@MoreBirths) April 11, 2026

This, of course, is why they depend on importing voters and indoctrinating other people’s children.

THERE’S ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE: A Surprising Supply of Communist Dupes.

I have some related thoughts here.

THAT KIND OF DENIAL PRETTY MUCH NEVER HAPPENS: Indiana U. professor says he was denied emeritus status after posting about male IQ.

As Ann Althouse says, it’s perfectly fine to talk about inherent sex differences, but you must always do so in a way that portrays women as superior.

HIGHER ED ECHOES WITH CALLS FOR INSURRECTION: UC Berkeley group stages protest against Iran war, demands ‘Trump must go now by any means necessary.’

CUTTING TO THE CHASE:

The chief criteria for a just versus an unjust war being whether the guy who launched it cut off your illegal alien-based taxpayer subsidy gravy train https://t.co/UWa5C0ZxOr

— Sunny (@sunnyright) April 13, 2026

DON SURBER: Rooting for Iran: NYT officially hates America and promotes terrorism.

SMOKE FILLED ROOMS: Meet the California Millionaire Funding Anti-Oil Lawsuits—And the Columbia Academics Working To Influence the Judges Handling The Cases.

USA TODAY: Democrats’ growing credibility gap may cost them the midterms | Opinion.

Well, it should.

I AGREE: Only Prosecutions Can End Dems’ DOJ Weaponization, But Media Pretend That’s Not Obvious.

Well: