GEORGETOWN PROF: THE CHICAGO STATEMENT NEEDS AN ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM. Prof. Hasnas makes an interesting point. While I worry that a campus authority dedicated to enforcing free speech policies could be co-opted, I also wonder if that would really be worse or different (on most campuses) than the current arrangement.

TWITTER BANS FEDERALIST CEO SEAN DAVIS FOR REPORTING ON ‘TRANS DAY OF VENGEANCE.’ Apparently Elon Musk didn’t fire enough people.

N.C. GOV JOINS OTHER STATES IN ALLOWING EXPERIENCE TO SUBSTITUTE FOR COLLEGE DEGREES. As the article points out, this is probably in the name of “equity,” but anything that reduces higher ed’s role as sole gatekeeper of “white-collar” jobs is a plus in my book.

UNC-CHAPEL HILL TRUSTEES RECOMMEND CREATING SCHOOL OF CIVIC LIFE TO FIGHT POLITICAL POLARIZATION; ACADEMIC LEFT NOT HAPPY. Suddenly, a “strange new respect” for academic governance. But if the trustees can’t even ask that the university start up a new program, what can they do?

A PROF PUNCHES BACK (LEGALLY) AT U. OF CENTRAL FLORIDA. “In the name of a crusade ‘to be actively anti-racist,’ as [President] Alexander Cartwright announced on June 2, 2020, the University of Central Florida (UCF) harassed and retaliated against Professor Charles Negy because he dared to publicly express viewpoints out of step with the prevailing campus orthodoxy on anti-racism…” They ruined Negy’s life–he had to sell his house and move back in with his mother to take care of his disabled brother. These people are actively anti-human. Their claims of compassion are lies.

(As disclosure, this suit was filed by my Allen Harris colleague Samantha Harris, who I worked with at FIRE for more than 15 years.)

THE SLOW RETURN OF ROTC TO THE IVIES. Booting ROTC off was a disgrace, but I have to wonder if more Ivy League grads in the military will help or hurt our ability to win wars at this point.

WHEN ARE YOU EVER GONNA USE THIS? OFTEN. A defense of liberal education you can use to bolster this inevitable argument with your kids. (I still think they should replace high school calculus with statistics, at least for the 90% of us who aren’t total nerds will never understand it, though.)

ILLEGAL ALIENS KILL BALD EAGLE TO EAT AND MAKE ORNAMENTS OF ITS FEET, FEDS DO NOTHING. Are we 100% sure Trump did not hire these guys to give him the best “I told you so” story ever? (Secondary punchline: More jobs Americans won’t do!)

“FORBIDDEN-WORD” LISTS ARE A SYMPTOM OF ADMINISTRATIVE BLOAT. “Rather than referring to the ‘low income and poor,’ the site advises, we should speak of “people whose self-reported income was in the lowest income bracket.” Way to go, phoney-baloney jobs people–that “self-reported” part just makes them sound like they are tax-dodgers. With a special appearance by Frederick Douglass(?!) as the first “Tarheel.”

A GREAT SUMMARY FOR LAYMEN OF THE SCOTUS ARGUMENTS OVER STUDENT LOANS. At this point, these interminable standing arguments are just enablers of government corruption.

How about this student loan plan: 1. Capitalize the schools to loan enough money for 4 years of student loans. 2. No selling the loan notes – let them loan the money and collect it. The end. What do you wanna bet that college suddenly gets rigorous and cheap?

FORMER GOVERNOR JIM MARTIN: N.C. NEEDS MORE NUCLEAR. Amen. (And don’t accuse me of NIMBY–I live near the pictured nuclear plant.)

As an aside, a retired engineer I know who worked for a major supplier to the nuclear industry told me it’s an open secret that the U.S. Northeast in particular would absolutely collapse without nuclear, even while the region’s Democrat pols frequently grandstand against it and for “renewables.”

‘HOW RENEGADE INVESTORS SPARKED A REVOLT AGAINST THE UNIVERSITY.’ Paper Belt on Fire tells the story of starting a venture capital firm based on getting “innovative kids to bypass college and develop their ideas”–and doing pretty well with it.

THE WAGES OF DEI AT TEXAS A&M. Tar. Feathers.

‘SCIENCE’: FILTERING REALITY THROUGH BELIEF. Apparently even zookeepers have to be politically correct nowadays: “Zookeepers have to manage the reality of animal aggression, even as they hate to acknowledge it. Zookeepers are eager to protect their animals, which puts them in the awkward position of taking precautions but not wanting to say why.” I learn something new every day.

HEATHER MAC DONALD: NEW METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART EXHIBIT CULTIVATES RACIAL RESENTMENT. You’ll never guess which one of these the Met scorns as a racist depiction of black people:

Update: Uhh, don’t look for pics of the back of that first one if you are at work.

HOW COLLEGE ADMISSIONS ACTUALLY WORKS. Prove him wrong! (Protip: You can’t.)

THE CASE AGAINST COLLEGE ADMISSIONS SELECTIVITY. I did not expect this to make such a good case. I am not sure if I remain unpersuaded because it’s unpersuasive or just because I am insufficiently open-minded on the issue.

As a counterpoint, Mark Bauerlein (one of the new trustees at the New College of Florida) makes the case for selectivity, but of the traditional kind, not what colleges practice now.

I’LL START BELIEVING IT’S A CRISIS WHEN THEY START ACTING LIKE IT’S A CRISIS. If Biden did indeed order the Nord Stream pipelines blown up, that means he chose to cause greenhouse emissions equivalent to burning 5 billion gallons of gasoline. But by all means, ban my SUV.

HOW MUCH MUST COURTS BLIND THEMSELVES TO ANTI-MALE DISCRIMINATION IN TITLE IX HEARINGS? In a Seventh Circuit amicus brief, FIRE and I argue that it’s way less than the district court judge in Doe v. Loyola University Chicago thought.

APP STATE’S MAGICAL VANISHING DEI COMMITTEE. Nothing to hide here, no sir. It’s all on the up-and-up.

CHINA CLAIMS BALLOON OVER U.S. IS… A WEATHER BALLOON. When Chinese soldiers jump out and start probing Midwestern farmers, I assume that will only further confirm the claim.

We deserve a better class of cover-up.

SOCIAL JUSTICE RESTRICTIONS ON RESEARCH HARM ALL OF US. Implemented to prevent another Tuskeegee Experiment, they now restrict things like outcomes that might “stigmatize,” even if helpful. But at least they prevent widespread and dangerous medical experimentation on people…. right?

SCHOOLS SHOULD THINK TWICE BEFORE PUNISHING FACULTY FOR THEIR SPEECH. Though it’s increasingly important that they stop being able to stick taxpayers with the bill for their expensive virtue-signaling (at Auburn, to the tune of $645,837).

“BREAKING: SECRET POPE BENEDICT BOOK IS PUBLISHED BLASTING PROGRESSIVE POPE FRANCIS, REVEALS US CATHOLIC SEMINARIES ARE HAVENS OF ‘GAY CLUBS.'” Whoa.

JAMIE LEE CURTIS REMOVES TWEET SHOWING OFF WEIRDO NAKED KID ART. You don’t need a pizza-related map to know that we need a total and complete shutdown of the elite fascination with creepy sexualized art (often involving kids) until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.