MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Why our institutions keep going woke and going broke.

DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Mountain lion kills man in Northern California in state’s first fatal attack in 20 years.

1 IN 7,000 DOESN’T SEEM ALL THAT COMMON: DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest: People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA—and learning that incest is far more common than many think.

DON’T STOP PUNCHING UNTIL THE REFEREE STOPS THE FIGHT: Dreams That Didn’t Come True: media, and the politics of its workforce, are on the ropes. “I am saying that it’s an interesting case study in a broader culture where people finally seem exhausted of the constant yelling, where more and more young people appear to grok that the definition of left politics as hectoring obsession over language and moral hygiene has been a disaster for the left and its constituencies.”

And don’t let them just pretend it never happened.

ABOLISH THE ATF: More ATF Atrocity: ATF SWAT raid in Arkansas Raises Questions About Excessive Force.

FASTER, PLEASE: Drilling for water ice on Mars: How close are we to making it happen?

IT’S COME TO THIS: Would Artificial Wombs Solve the Depopulation Crisis?

WHERE COULD THAT HAVE COME FROM: As Princess of Wales reveals diagnosis, doctors warn of mysterious cancer ‘epidemic.’

BECAUSE THEY’RE RUN BY AWFUL, GREEDY PEOPLE: Why Are the Universities Cesspits of Anti-Semitism? “These international students, the large majority from countries with little freedom of speech and little or no tradition of academic freedom, are the shock troops of anti-Semitism. True, they bring some leftist students along with them. But the most anti-Semitic universities, like Harvard, Penn and MIT, are also the ones with the most foreign students from anti-Semitic countries. This was illustrated by the fact that when violently anti-Semitic students assaulted Jewish students at MIT, isolating them in the library and trying to break down the doors to get at them, MIT declined to expel the anti-Semitic thugs. Why? For fear that they would be deported. There are a number of reasons for the corruption of higher education; this is by no means the only one. But it is an important part of the explanation of why our allegedly top universities have gone so completely off the rails. This story in the London Times relates to the U.K., where reliance on foreign students is even more extreme than in the U.S. But it sheds a lot of light on why British universities are so tolerant of anti-Semitism and other left-wing outrages.”

GOOGLE IS NOT YOUR FRIEND: Google Has Been Ratting Out YouTube Viewers to the Feds.

Say what you will about TikTok, at least it probably won’t rat you out to the feds. Also, what’s wrong with tutorial “videos showing how to generate maps using a drone and some AI software”?

APOLOGY NEEDED: Bates student cleared of weapons violation in Nerf gun prank. “A lot of the committee members apologized at the end because of how absurd the situation was.”

THE ROACHES SCATTER WHEN THE LIGHTS GO ON: Columbia student group panics amidst House investigation into school’s anti-Semitism.

JEFFREY CARTER: Stealing It: Chicago Shows How It Is Done. “Only about 20% of eligible voters voted, and it’s taking them at least six days past the election to count all the votes. Every single one of these people is responsible for making fraud easier. But, the State’s Attorney’s race was closer. Lo and behold after all the ballots were practically counted they ‘found’ another mail-in ballot dropbox full of 10,000 ballots that were not postmarked or dated. They are counting them now.”

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Planet Fitness Paying the Price for Trans Agenda.

WELCOME TO THE MONOCULTURE: What Do Law Professor Campaign Contributions Say About Their Politics?

YOU MEAN THE SUCKING-UP TO HAMAS WASN’T A VOTE-GETTER? CNN Poll Shows Trump With 8-Point Lead Over Biden in Michigan.

ICYMI: RIP, Vernor Vinge. We are still living in his world, even if he is not.

Here’s the podcast interview that Helen and I did with him for the late and lamented Glenn & Helen Show. Note Helen’s skepticism re virtual sex.

And Rainbows End is looking pretty plausible post-Covid.

MATT TAIBBI: “The future of AI-powered censorship is here, and the early returns are as error-filled and clumsily destructive as Google’s infamous Gemini rollout.”

ALSO DOESN’T CARE: US doesn’t know how many Americans were abandoned in Afghanistan.

JOHN LUCAS: “The Only Time I Ever Lied” — Joe Biden’s Interview with the Special Counsel Is Worse Than You’ve Heard (Part 2).

ICYMI:

Whoever came up with "Didn't Earn It" as the description of DEI might have saved the world.

Normally, the clever alternative names people use to mock the other side's policy are nothing but grin-worthy.

This one could collapse the whole racist system. It's that strong.

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) March 21, 2024

OPEN THREAD: Sorry, thought I’d scheduled this earlier.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Boeing’s 1st Starliner astronaut flight test for NASA could launch as soon as May 1.

As they say at Boeing, when one door closes, another opens.

THE CHINESE POSITION IS HELPED BY HAVING BIDEN ON THE PAYROLL:

The Filipinos, clutching the UN judgment and statement of support from allies, are up against the most implacable force on earth, the fiat of a Communist Party. Communist Parties never retreat, admit defeat or give up. It is the nearest thing in history to the Terminator.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 24, 2024

WELL, HUMANS ARE PART OF NATURE: Turns Out Nature Didn’t ‘Heal’ While Humans Were in Lockdown.