FASTER, PLEASE: Experimental Drug Helped Cancer Patients Live 40% Longer in Clinical Trial.

GOOD:

BREAKING: The Florida Board of Governors has rejected Santa Ono for the presidency of University of Florida. This is a massive win for conservatives—and an act of courage by the board.

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) June 3, 2025

MICHAEL WALSH: The Political is Now Personal. Women Hardest Hitters. “Back in 1969, very close to the Year Zero of the modern “feminist” movement, an activist named Carol Hanisch penned an essay titled, “The Personal is Political,” whose neo-communist, collectivist slogan was later weaponized by the former Lady Macbeth of Little Rock, now Dowager Empress of Chappaqua, Hillary Clinton. Although unfocused, unreadable, poorly argued, and couched (of course) in the language of ‘therapy,’ it served as the opening salvo of the anti-family, anti-‘patriarchy’ Left against postwar American society. . . . In case you’re tempted to scoff at the sheer nuttiness of academic writing, three years later Alan Alda had supplanted John Wayne as the ideal American male. Duly empowered females were ‘liberated’ to abandon the safety and comforts of the home and the joys and challenges of child-rearing in order to redundantly ape the males of the species in offices and cubicles all over the land, the better to ‘gain access’ to the secret power corridors of the patriarchy on golf courses, locker rooms, and the waiting rooms of cardiologists. In short order, the cultural norms were, like Chesterton’s Fence, torn down on the theory that they were entirely arbitrary and willfully punitive, and women — the ‘gentler sex’ — would lead men out of the artificially imposed prison of sex roles where they had dwelled for lo, these hundreds of thousands of years and into a world of peace, sisterhood, and green acres as far as the eye could see. How’s that workin’ out for ya? Not well.”

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Exercise boosts survival rates in colon cancer patients, study shows.

BY THAT THEY MEAN IT HAS ITS OWN VACUUM CLEANER AND REFRIGERATOR: 2025 Toyota Sienna Platinum First Test: It Sucks and It’s Freezing.

HE’S RIGHT: Justice Thomas: Until the Court Enforces its Rulings, The Second Amendment Remains a Second Class Right.

Related: Justice Kavanaugh to Second Amendment: We’re Really Busy Now, Come Back In A Year Or Two.

The second-class treatment is just part of the judiciary’s class war.

IT’S A MISTAKE TO RELY ON LLM AI FOR THINGS THAT SERIOUSLY MATTER: Unlicensed law clerk fired after ChatGPT hallucinations found in filing.

WAGES OF LOST TRUST: New data show MMR vaccination rate decline across US.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Paradromics implants brain-computer interface into first human patient.

COFFEE — IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Midlife coffee drinkers enjoy healthier old age, study finds.

EVERY SERVICE NEEDS TO DO THIS. MY NEPHEW REPORTS APPALLING CONDITIONS IN THE ARMY. Navy Orders Forcewide Housing Inspections After Secretary ‘Appalled’ by Guam Barracks Conditions.

CDR SALAMANDER: US Navy Shipyards: What They Took From Us. “That is what the “Peace Dividend” era bequeathed to this generation. The subsequent results of maintenance backlogs and until-the-crack-of-doom shipbuilding times give testimony to the insufficiency of it all. While we spent this century engaged and distracted by imperial policing and cultural experimentation in Central and Southwest Asia, the People’s Republic of China has built the world’s largest navy. For good measure, they are also closing the capability gap rapidly.”

I THINK THE REPUBLIC WILL SURVIVE: NSF projects cut by DOGE include dance-making in physics, computer science sister circles.

CHANGE: Wichita State orders employees to remove ‘gender identifying pronouns’ from email signatures.

I’VE SPECULATED HERE IN THE PAST THAT TRUMP (AND ELON) WERE USING AI TO GAME THEIR OPPONENTS’ RESPONSES: TrumpGPT The AI-Generated Battle Plan: How 2025 Became the Year the Deep State Lost Control. “The deep state is predictable. It has patterns—media patterns, legal delay patterns, psyop patterns. Trump’s team fed it all into the machine.”

Plausible.

IT’S BECAUSE CHINA ALREADY HAS A COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT:

Can someone please explain the logic of climate change protesters blocking streets in London or Berlin? Aren’t they in wrong country? pic.twitter.com/f5RPYNLTF4

— Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) May 31, 2025

PHILIP HAMBURGER: Don’t Just Fix Higher Education, Reconstitute It: The real threat to the existing system comes from the internet and AI, not Donald Trump.

Academic institutions think they have a problem and that its name is Donald Trump. But he’s only the beginning of their problems. The difficulties are systemic, not only legal or political, and that means it’s time to reconsider what higher education should look like.

The current institutional players are in no condition to rethink higher education. Having cultivated and tolerated violations of civil-rights laws, universities and colleges can’t afford candid introspection, lest it be understood as an admission of wrongdoing. They are controlled, moreover, by administrators who generally don’t have the stomach to recognize the damage they’ve done to higher education, let alone what should be done with their jobs.

The federal government is no better at re-evaluating higher education. It’s focusing on the tools available to it: enforcing antidiscrimination laws and defunding science (even though scientists aren’t typically the culprits).

The academic failures of universities and colleges are obvious enough. Departments generally appoint their own faculty members—so that once a department is ideologically captured, it tends to tilt further in the same direction, inevitably producing instruction and research that, considered as a whole, is slanted. Institutions then inculcate conformity, punish dissenters, and apply harsh disciplinary proceedings. Put another way, the recent antisemitism didn’t develop in a vacuum. It was nurtured amid ideological capture and selective enforcement of the rules. These are substantial impediments to the pursuit of truth.

Part of the problem comes from government. It’s often said that we’re seeing the results of the left’s march through the institutions. But government policies, often based on twisted interpretations of civil-rights laws, accelerated ideological and administrative dominance.

Plus: “When Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in 1536, the monks thought the danger came from Henry, but the underlying problem was Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press. Similarly, although today the immediate threat comes from the Trump administration, academic institutions are fragile because knowledge is now available through the internet and artificial intelligence. For balanced inquiry, even academics increasingly look outside their universities.”

If only there had been some sort of warning.

YES:

What more do we need to see before we acknowledge this "free Palestine" movement is nothing more than a domestic terror organization?

We are in a FIGHT for the future of Western civilization and we need to come to grips with it — and fast. pic.twitter.com/cHgHTL2lM4

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) June 2, 2025

NO, MANY DO NOT: Not Every College Deserves to Be Saved.

ILYA SHAPIRO: Take Down Harvard—But Do It the Right Way.

THIS IS THE WAY:

🚨 Breaking: Argentina's 🇦🇷 economy grew 8% year-over-year in April 2025, the highest in the Western world!@JMilei's chainsaw revolution is unstoppable! 💪 pic.twitter.com/7QjZuRgArB

— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) June 2, 2025

OH NO! ANYWAY. . . . Trump’s International Student Ban Would Decimate Harvard Law School’s 1-Year LL.M. Program ($81,760 Tuition Generates $11 Million/Year).

THAT WOULD REQUIRE SELF-DISCIPLINE: “Those who oppose his immigration policies ought to take pains not to appear more upset that the violence helps Trump gain support than they are by the violence itself.”

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPRESSIVE IN 2010: Blue Origin performs 12th crewed New Shepard suborbital flight.