HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Farewell, Michael Schill, As Another University President Bites the Dust.
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September 5, 2025
HELEN SAYS A LOT OF DOCTORS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS ARE USING IT TO WRITE THEIR REPORTS: AI is Destroying Education at Every Level.
BYRON YORK: Those Who Wish Trump Dead.
THIS IS A DUMB IDEA, THOUGH IT WILL BE AMUSING TO SEE TRUMP TROLL DEMOCRATS INTO SUPPORTING GUN OWNERSHIP AS AN INALIENABLE RIGHT: Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say.
September 4, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Ready, steady, go.
DOUBTS ABOUT beta blockers after heart attacks.
SEIZING THE MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT:
Did anyone really believe that Joe Biden personally pardoned 4,250 people?
Seriously.
Joe Biden couldn’t READ the names of 4,000 people let alone know their cases enough to warrant him giving them a pardon.
This is major fraud.
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) September 4, 2025
I’M NOT SURPRISED: Artificial sweeteners consumed in midlife linked to cognitive decline.
COROLLA NEWS: What’s Next for Toyota’s Most Important Small Car?
HAHA:
The optics of today’s attack hearing of Kennedy is a bunch of Alzheimer’s patients reading notes from pharma lobbyists to a jacked grandpa.
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) September 4, 2025
UNDER OBAMACARE, THEY DECIDED NOT TO TEST FOR A LOT OF THIS STUFF. I HAD MY DOUBTS AT THE TIME. Reduced Screening May Have Led to Rise in Advanced Prostate Cancer Diagnoses: Changes in screening recommendations over a decade ago may have inadvertently resulted in later diagnosis of the most common cancer in men, a new study has found.
I guess my misgivings were well-founded. I assume no one behind this policy will pay any sort of a price for the consequences.
ALIENS: Mysterious Object Headed Toward Mars. “Ever since astronomers spotted the object, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has suggested the tantalizing possibility that it could be a relic from an extraterrestrial civilization that was ‘sent towards the inner solar system by design.'”
IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Paleontologists discover dinosaur-era crocodile in Patagonia.
FLASHBACK: Donald Trump is a symptom of a new kind of class warfare raging at home and abroad.
Suddenly, to a lot of voters, those postwar institutional arrangements stopped looking so good. But, of course, the beneficiaries showed no sign of giving them up. This has led to a lot of political discord, and a lot of culture war, since in America class warfare is usually disguised as cultural warfare. But underneath the surface, talk is a battle between the New Class and what used to be the middle class.
If you look at the “yellow jacket” protests in France, the election of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and events in places like Italy and Hungary — or, for that matter, the Brexit movement in Britain — you find a similar unhappiness with institutional arrangements and the sleek and self-satisfied elites who benefit from them. People who, in President Bill Clinton’s famous phrase, worked hard and played by the rules now suspect that the rules were rigged, and that they were treated as chumps.
Talking about the yellow-vest movement, French geographer Christophe Guilluy observes: “Immediately, the protesters were denounced as xenophobes, anti-Semites and homophobes. The elites present themselves as anti-fascist and anti-racist, but this is merely a way of defending their class interests. It is the only argument they can muster to defend their status, but it is not working anymore.”
That’s right. It’s class war masquerading as something else, but people have seen through the mask.
Understanding this won’t make the conflict less intense, but it might make it clearer what’s really at stake. What’s happening in America is an echo of what’s happening in democracies around the world, and it’s not happening because of Trump. Trump is the symptom of a ruling class that many of the ruled no longer see as serving their interest, and the anti-Trump response is mostly the angry backlash of that class as it sees its position, its perquisites and — perhaps especially — its self-importance threatened.
Still true.
THE SLOW RETURN OF SANITY: Ohio State University bans land acknowledgements.
Nawrocki, who narrowly won the presidency in June, is often described as “the Polish Trump.” It’s an accurate epithet. Nawrocki is as much a “Poland First” president as Trump is an “America First” president. The 42-year-old historian (Nawrocki holds a PhD in history) supports a list of policy initiatives that could have come right out of the MAGA playbook. In his inaugural address on August 6, he touched on several of these themes. Unlike his brethren in the EU, Nawrocki, a staunch Roman Catholic, emphasized Poland’s abiding “attachment to Christian values and identity.” Among those values, he noted, were “love and mercy towards other people,” including, he said with a perhaps a touch of irony, those who had vilified and lied about him during his campaign.
On more overtly political matters, Nawrocki affirmed that at the center of his “Plan 21” platform were two negative imperatives: “no” to illegal migration “no” to adopting the euro. Poland would maintain its own currency, and thus its independence from the encroachments of the EU not only on matters of illegal immigration but also on such subjects as energy (Nawrocki is pro-nuclear energy) and the florid sexual exoticism of LGBTQ+ and transsexual activists.
During his meeting with Trump in the Oval Office, Nawrocki stressed his commitment to bolster Poland’s contribution to NATO. It already stands at 4.7 percent of GDP, he noted, one of the highest in the EU, and his goal is 5 percent.
Trump endorsed Nawrocki last spring and it was clear that the two men have a lot in common. Both are pro-growth, pro-law and order (Nawrocki is an independent but is supported by the conservative Law and Justice Party), and pro-national sovereignty. And just as Donald Trump has been wildly castigated (and indicted) by agents of the globalist, deep-state establishment, so Nawrocki has been the object of a campaign of vilification by the usual suspects. The Polish American, anti-Trump writer Anne Applebaum, for example, has dismissed Nawrocki as an “authoritarian populist candidate” and advocate of “blood-and-soil nationalism.” The side-long allusion to the diminutive Austrian house painter with the funny mustache was not adventitious.
In fact, Karol Nawrocki is one of a new breed of politically mature populist leaders in Europe, among whose number I would include Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and Hungary’s Viktor Orbán. These are leaders who have rejected the malicious hot-house utopianism of open borders and fantasy politics in which a nurturing past is exchanged for a congeries of militantly superficial and enervating liberal clichés. If leaders like Karol Nawrocki represent the future of Europe, Europe’s future will be bright. Donald Trump saw that instantly, which is why the two man exhibited such obvious rapport and camaraderie in the Oval Office. I predict that meeting marked the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Is there any pundit as tedious and wrong these days as Anne Applebaum?
FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT:
Graham Linehan isn’t backing down.
This is him on his way to court.
— Real News Éire (@real_eire) September 4, 2025
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This is sadly not that far out of line for our “expert” class these days.
Related: The Suicide of Expertise.