Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
April 22, 2024
IT’S EVEN WORSE THAN THE INTELLECTUAL ROT: The Moral Rot at the Heart of Our Elite Institutions.
Related:
Having covered Yale in 2015, when the social justice-coded position was that a polite email about Halloween costumes ruined the safe space students needed to learn, it's staggering to see the scenes like this from left-activists (not sure if they are students or not), and no… https://t.co/QLfshpgDxN
— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) April 21, 2024
Heard outside Columbia University last night: "Never forget the 7th of October. That will happen not 1 more time, not 5 more times, not 10, not 100, not 1,000, but 10,000 times! The 7th of October is going to be every day for you" pic.twitter.com/7rYJTwlz4x
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) April 19, 2024
Plus: “None of this is actually a response to Israel’s response to 10/7. It started on 10/8, with students and professors proudly standing up and declaring that this is what decolonization looks like and that the Hamas attack was exhilarating. It was the bloodlust that called them; it is about the destruction of our society that they so strongly desire.”
UPDATE:
A lot of Jewish friends, especially those who are finally awake after 10/7, say things like "how is this America?" or "It's so scary that this Jew-hatred is happening everywhere." But it's very much NOT "America" and it absolutely is NOT happening "everywhere." In south Florida,…
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) April 22, 2024
Important read. The largest Israeli flag I know of in my county hangs in an Evangelical church. Our extremely vocal and demonstrative enemies want us Jews to believe we’re isolated and endangered. This is false. We actually surrounded by friends. https://t.co/q7lQKMHSaN
— Arie Friedman (@ArieFriedman) April 22, 2024
Related: In red America, standing up for Israel isn’t controversial.
UPDATE (From Ed): It’s Charlottesvilles all the way down in Joe Biden’s America:
ALL THAT TALK ABOUT PEDOS IN HIGH PLACES IS JUST CRAZY CONSPIRACY STUFF: Former senior policy advisor to Obama White House charged with child sex offences in British court: Rahamim ‘Rami’ Shy, 46, co-ordinated the US’s strategy to combat terrorists. “Shy, a US citizen, who lives in New Jersey, worked for the White House under president Barack Obama and secretary of state Hillary Clinton, was arrested in late February by Bedfordshire Police. He was charged the following day and appeared at Luton Crown Court via video-link from HMP Bedford on Friday wearing a grey prison-issue tracksuit.”
UPDATE: A friend writes: “British police arresting lefties of Asian descent for child sex crimes? That’s different. What’s going on in Blighty, are they pulling their heads out of their asses?”
Beats me, but my guess is there’s something political underlying it.
IT SURVIVES FOR THE SAME REASON 3-CARD MONTE AND THE SPANISH PRISONER DO: Roger Kimball: Socialism’s Survival: The Endurance of an Ideological Paradox.
April 21, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves in the comments.
WELCOME TO THE PARTY, PAL. IT’S ONLY BEEN OBVIOUS SINCE THE 2016 ELECTION. Two Former High-Profile Trump Critics Now Admit It: His Foes are the Real Threat to Democracy.
FUNNY, EVEN THOUGH NOT REALLY FUNNY:
Columbia is basically now Hamas with a bad football program
— Kamel Amin Thaabet (@K_AminThaabet) April 21, 2024
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Slovenia signs Artemis Accords. “Slovenia signed the Artemis Accords outlining best practices for sustainable space exploration April 19, the third European country to do so in five days. . . . The Artemis Accords, unveiled in 2020, describe practices that signatory nations should follow in space exploration, building upon the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 and related international agreements. They include provisions on transparency and interoperability as well as preservation of space heritage, utilization of space resources and deconfliction of space activities.”
The Accords also recognize the right to engage in commercial extraction of space resources, via mining, etc. I’m delighted that this Trump-era diplomatic initiative continues to flourish.
SAILORS HAVE BEEN REPORTING THEM FOR YEARS, BUT LIKE PILOTS’ REPORTS OF SPRITES AT HIGH ALTITUDE, THEIR REPORTS WERE DISCOUNTED BY EXPERTS. Giant Rogue Waves Could Happen Much More Often Than We Realized.
TRUTH:
They didn't miss it.
They helped foment it. https://t.co/j8g2EhkFso
— Sunny (@sunnyright) April 21, 2024
Related:
Biden says the tiki torch whites in Charlottesville was the reason he ran for President. Now he can’t even be bothered to have a Sister Souljah moment with his own side over their antisemitism at Columbia, Harvard, MIT, etc. He’d rather burden the working class with their debt.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) April 21, 2024
Plus:
We should see @mkraju asking every member of the Squad about this, and when they refuse to condemn or obfuscate, he should ask every person in Democratic leadership what they think about those responses. https://t.co/Cb8TY5XmdI
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) April 21, 2024
And:
Why are people surprised about this? Socialist revolutions are always led by the brat children of the rich. https://t.co/7X3W0E1Fxt
— James Lindsay, full varsity (@ConceptualJames) April 20, 2024
A depressingly plausible look ahead by @michaelbd @NRO:
Rehearsal for Revolution https://t.co/eS4mKMSIwW pic.twitter.com/q709sBL6Ud
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) April 20, 2024
Gird your loins. I will say, they may try something like that, but the country as a whole is sick of this bullshit, and I don’t think they’ll get much sympathy if they get a beat-down from blue-state police departments. And if they don’t, it’ll probably just throw the election to Trump.
VITAMIN D HAS HELPED ME: Medicines Aren’t Very Effective for IBS: Scientists Found What Works Better. The low-carb high protein diet is good too.
HOW STORIES ABOUT HUMAN-ROBOT RELATIONSHIPS PUSH OUR BUTTONS.
FROM COMPUTERS: Where do all those colors in space telescope images come from?
WHERE WOKE POLITICS HAS LED:
I just got sent this from a Columbia chat: pic.twitter.com/xpndY9ng0E
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) April 21, 2024
You know perfectly well that if there were mobs telling black students to go back to Africa on the Columbia campus, they’d be met with flamethrowers.
Related: Why America’s Richest Universities Are Protecting Hate-Filled Foreign Students.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Calories are key to weight loss regardless of fasting schedule, study shows. I wonder, though, if occasional fasting helps people feel less hungry. Or maybe feel hunger less intensely.
YEP:
The people who rule the world have a secret handshake. oday ouyay owknay ethay ecretsay ordsway? https://t.co/RfDsTczC6q
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) April 20, 2024
AN EXPERTLY CREATED transgender fantasyland.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Northwestern U. dean joins anti-Israel rally organized by far-left student groups.
UPDATE: Eugene Volokh queried the Dean in question and received this response:
As Dean of Students, I regularly attend student demonstrations on campus, to ensure the safety of our community. I been to dozens of demonstrations on a variety of topics over the years, as have other members of our Student Affairs team.
My role at these demonstrations is not as a participant or supporter, but as an observer to ensure safety and well-being of the entire community, including those who might be targeted by the protest.
When asked by the student newspaper why I was there I told them this as well, but that part of my quote was not included in the article.
Monday’s demonstration was held by a number of student groups representing a variety of issues.
I, and the University, strongly supports Hillel, which is vital to the Northwestern community.
The University is investigating whether the statements about Hillel that were in the flyer distributed Monday violate our Code of Conduct or Northwestern’s discrimination and harassment policies.
So there you have her side of the story.