Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
April 25, 2024
1960S PROTESTERS: “THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING.”
Now:
Right now at Columbia: faculty members formed a chain to keep journalists out of the encampment. pic.twitter.com/2mJPisuVst
— Zach Kessel (@zach_kessel) April 24, 2024
What don’t they want people to see?
NAVAL NEGLECT: What Happened to Our Ship Repair Infrastructure? Neglect, myopia, and greed.
Related: The Boxer is the 2024 Navy’s Canary. Ignore the excuses: See the waterfront. “Supremacy at sea is not an entitlement. It is not a law of nature. It is taken, maintained, and defended. We are surrendering it.”
DESPITE, BECAUSE OF, WHATEVER. NPR Struggles Despite Its Commitment to the ‘North Star’ of DEI.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Jewish students, come here to the South — where you’ll be safe.
April 24, 2024
THE IVY LEAGUE’S REPUTATION IS TAKING A HIT: Ivy League grads risk losing prized jobs for schools allowing antisemitic protests to fester: Wall Street honchos.
“DEI CONCERNS:”
Report: One of the VP's Secret Service agents attacked other agents at Joint Base Andrews on Monday and there are "DEI concerns" about his hiringhttps://t.co/nMLLec83dGhttps://t.co/nMLLec83dG
— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) April 24, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Make your mark.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Jewish students, come here to the South — where you’ll be safe.
MICROBIOME NEWS: A Skin-Deep Wound Can Trigger Gut Bacteria Changes.
TRY THAT IN A RED STATE: Watch: Texas DPS Shows Up at a Pro-Hamas ‘Encampment,’ and Beautiful Chaos Follows.
Extremists part of the @Columbia CHAZ-style occupation chant support for Hamas terror:
“Al-Qassam, you make us proud, take another soldier out”
“We say justice, you say how? Burn Tel Aviv to the ground”
“Hamas, we love you. We support your rockets too”pic.twitter.com/YtNwzqYvNd
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) April 20, 2024
Palestinian activists TACKLED to the floor and arrested as Texas DPS troops make dozens of arrests as an unruly mob surround the officers and scream.
Hundreds of students have occupied the University of Texas- Austin and have been ordered to disperse.
Video: @RyanChandlerTV pic.twitter.com/lE3RIpgzEr
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 24, 2024
IT’S IN YOUR GENES: The Secret to Living to 100? It’s Not Good Habits.
WHEN YOU CAN’T TRUST RANSOMWARE PIRATES, WHO CAN YOU TRUST? UnitedHealth Group: Patient data compromised despite paying ransomware.
OF COURSE THEY WEREN’T: Little Rock ATF Incident Update: Agents Were Not Wearing Body Cameras as per ATF Policy.
AT LEAST ONE OF THESE WAS MORE OR LESS INEVITABLE: Porsche Gave the 2025 Cayenne GTS Better Performance and a Higher Price.
I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: Study finds suicidal behaviors increased by over 50% in Catalonia, Spain after the COVID-19 pandemic.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Repeated exposure to explosive blasts increases soldiers’ risk of brain injury.
REMEMBER WHEN THEY TOLD US ANTIBIOTICS WERE USELESS AGAINST VIRUSES? Neosporin ointment in the nose may help fight off respiratory viruses. “Lab animals whose noses were treated using neomycin — the main ingredient in over-the-counter Neosporin ointment — mounted a robust immune defense against both the COVID-19 virus and a highly virulent strain of influenza, researchers found.”
I remember mockery of doctors who prescribed Azithromycin for Covid.
THE BABY BUST: Awkward truth: Subsidizing women’s work drives down birthrates. “The simple lesson from all the available data is this: To help people have more children, just give them cash, either unconditionally or on the condition of having children. Any other effort to subsidize families, such as subsidizing work or subsidizing child care, has no effect, a tiny effect, or even a negative effect on family formation.”
THERE ARE LIMITS: You Can Protest Republicans, But…Protesters Arrested Outside Schumer’s Residence. “For years, the Democrats have celebrated protesters harassing conservatives, using bullhorns outside conservative homes at all hours of the night. They encourage people to drive Republicans out of the public square. They piously proclaim that free speech means you can harass any Republican in any manner you like. Remember those protesters outside Amy Comey Barrett’s and Brett Kavanaugh’s houses? No biggie. But do the same to Chuck Schumer? You get arrested. He is the good guy, and he deserves peace and quiet.”
Plus: “When a Republican says ‘arrest them,’ we are fascists. When a Democrat says “arrest them,” they arrest them.”
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN THAT GOES UP TONIGHT RECOMMENDS THAT JEWISH STUDENTS TRANSFER, BUT THIS GOES BEYOND THAT: Kids Are Giving Up on Elite Colleges—and Heading South.
Southern colleges also offer something Northerners rarely find at elite schools: an introduction to people who don’t think or behave exactly like them, but are welcoming nonetheless. When visiting her son Scott, a student at Elon University since 2022, Francine Katz’s interactions with students and teachers has changed her entire perspective on Southerners. “I might not agree with the politics in the South, but Northerners could really learn a lot from Southerners on how to treat people,” she says.
Archie Glazer feels the same. After visiting several elite colleges in the Northeast this spring, he is trying to keep an open mind about where he’ll apply next year, but can’t get past his first impressions.
“Everybody looked so miserable,” he says.
Yeah. Even when I was in law school, the Yale undergrads seemed unhappy and I felt sorry for them. Now it’s infinitely worse than it was then. And much more expensive!
Related: Go to a state school: The Ivy League and other elite private colleges are losing esteem — and they deserve it. “People have figured out that elite higher ed is cringe.”