WELCOME TO THE 21ST CENTURY: AI disruptions reveal the folly of clinging to an idealized modern university.

SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: Human heart regrows muscle cells after heart attack, researchers discover. They used to say that was impossible. Now to make it happen more.

I GAVE BLOOD ON MONDAY AND GOT A REALLY NICE SWEATSHIRT INSTEAD OF THE RATTY T-SHIRTS THEY USED TO GIVE OUT: Non-monetary ‘honor-based’ incentives linked to increased blood donations. I think that’s an indicator that they’re having more difficulty hanging on to donors.

EVERYTHING? What Newsrooms Don’t Understand About the Greenland Deployments.

GOOD: Canaduh’s Latest Gun Confiscation Drive is Doomed to Fail…Magnificently.

NYU’S SHAME:

Let's be clear about this — hospital staff refused to treat plainclothes NYPD detectives injured in the line of duty. Not only that, these officers were treated with contempt completely outside ethical bounds for medical personnel.

From what I understand, staff supposedly did… https://t.co/nVhidkHZ2Y

— Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (@VickieforNYC) January 21, 2026

BREAKING: FBI Arrests Church-Raid Leaders in Minneapolis. “Considering the evidence on hand, the DoJ took its time. The group published the evidence of its own violations of the FACE Act on social media, as well as evidence of violating other federal statutes, on Sunday. Presumably, Bondi had a grand jury review the X/Twitter streams and let them reach their own conclusions before seeking arrest warrants. The evidence was so compelling that CNN’s Erin Burnett tried to pretend it didn’t matter while interviewing Armstrong yesterday. Guy Benson noticed, and scoffed.”

Scoffing at Erin Burnett is pretty much always justified. Such a shill.

You’re not going to dispute that? It’s on video! https://t.co/XO4lxHI14z

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) January 22, 2026

WELL, GOOD: Yale activists strike out on oil, Israel, and weapons divestment.

EH, MY SYLLABI ARE NOTHING I’M ASHAMED OF: Georgia’s ‘public syllabi’ head-fake: The requirement to publicly post syllabi is applied in a way that allows professors to share select, edited portions of the documents.

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Why We Need Legal Academics and Civil Debate on Contentious Legal & Political Issues.

DON SURBER: The Art of the Deal in Davos. “If your country isn’t worth defending, why should the USA?”

ROGER KIMBALL: Why shouldn’t the Board of Peace replace the UN? It’s not hard to be more effective than the UN, but one has to start somewhere.

The latest media palpitation about Donald Trump concerns his just-announced “Board of Peace.” Unveiled as an initiative to manage the introduction of tranquillity and physical reconstruction of that pile of rubble formerly known as Gaza, the Board of Peace seems to be filling all the empty space in the parking lot reserved for international relations. Think Big! The BoP now seems to take as its mandate international conflict more generally. Reporting on the fledgling enterprise, a story on ABC News mournfully told the world that “Critics and government leaders are decrying the board, saying it undermines the United Nations.”

Is that a promise? And more to the point, how would anyone be able to tell whether that monstrous, superannuated magnet for spies and third-world grifters had been “undermined?” Inquiring minds want to know.

I will come back to Trump’s latest action idea in a moment. First, I have something to propose for the United Nations. Many countries have the sads about the United States. Their leaders think Trump is a bully. They hate it that he plucked the dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife from their bedroom in Caracas and flew them, free and for nothing, to New York. They are weepy about his talk of appropriating Greenland and making its 56,000 residents rich. All the Danes had to offer was forced sterilization for the ladies, but we’re not supposed to talk about that.

But back to the UN. Why should New York get all the glory? I know the assorted despots like to come to Manhattan in their cloud of all-expense-paid diplomatic immunity to rail against the evils of Israel and the United States. But shouldn’t we take a page from that great Kenyan Barack Hussein Obama and seek to spread the wealth around?

Here’s my proposal. Untether the UN from the US. Beginning next year, let’s locate that august (in its own eye) body in various spots around the world for a term of, say, three years. Since everyone is so keen on Somalia at the moment, let’s move the UN to Mogadishu for three years beginning in January 2027. Then it might go to Ukraine for three years. Then to Gaza, where its great moral authority might help restore the tissues of that unfortunate stretch of beach-front property.

Meanwhile, the hideous Corbusier structure in New York can either be demolished outright or taken apart piecemeal and shipped to Brussels, where it can be reassembled and open as a museum commemorating the unique combination of corruption and hectoring utopian blather that the UN has always specialized in. As for its site on the East River, that’s prime real estate. I suggest transforming it into some useful for once, a golf course, for example, or putting green.

If only we knew someone with Manhattan real estate development experience who could handle the repurposing.

YOUR DAVOS NOTES:

DAVOS: THE SHORT VERSION
(NO FLUFF)

(Sorry for the photo, nothing personal to my EU friends)

Let me give you the compressed version of what actually happened at Davos.

🇺🇸 Donald Trump

What he said (synopsis):
•America is done subsidizing bad trade deals
•Sovereignty matters… pic.twitter.com/LxPBfvCmRQ

— Steven Eugene Kuhn (@StevenEKuhn) January 22, 2026

GANGSTER GOVERNMENT: Virginia’s ‘Make Fraud Legal’ Bill.

UPDATE:

Doing away with minimum sentences for rape and child pornography.

Making it impossible to verify eligibility for federal benefits.

Explicit ideological indoctrination in schools.

Anyone who thinks that in 2025 Dems are capable of moderate governance is an idiot and a mark. https://t.co/vhl1r4wj8l

— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) January 22, 2026

IT’S A HOTEL NOT A PANOPTICON: Hotels Are Getting Rid of Proper Bathroom Doors and Guests Are Revolting: Lodgers looking for peace and quiet are struggling in the era of sliding barn doors, frosted glass panes and sometimes no separation at all.

Damn designers are full of themselves:

“So when designing this we wanted a door that allows you to both see and hear everything that’s happening behind,” comedian Becca Herries said in a sketch about sliding doors that racked up 336,000 views on TikTok. “This door is designed to either move your relationship forward or end it.”

No thank you.

HERE’S A CHANCE FOR POLAND TO DO THE FUNNIEST THING EVER AND SEIZE EAST GERMANY:

Germany is basically 2 separate countries now.

The people who lived under communism in East Germany are desperate not to do it again.

The West Germans are running head first into it. pic.twitter.com/2O54fkZdmE

— Landeur 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@Landeur) January 21, 2026

LOL, HAWAII: The Perversity of Citing The Black Codes To Defend Gun-Control Laws.

SUICIDAL EMPATHY:

This woman is crying hysterically because ICE was conducting a search for two child rapists living in her neighbourhood.

That’s right.
She was crying for child rapists.

This is why, as a survivor of child sexual abuse, I will never trust the left. pic.twitter.com/ffGMMO7B9M

— Samantha Smith (@SamanthaTaghoy) January 21, 2026

CALL HER INSUFFERABLE: Michelle Obama Laments The Objectification of Women On Sex And Dating Podcast ‘Call Her Daddy.’ “How could a woman hold the highest seat in the government when she has less rights than half the population?”

Fewer rights, Michelle. Fewer. Not “less rights.” You went to Princeton, you should know that.

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

Melanie Yazzie, a professor at @UMNews, says that her goal is to "dismantle the United States."

She wants that to become EVERYONE's political goal.

These people want to destroy the country, and they aren't even hiding it anymore.pic.twitter.com/omWzxtmbGn

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 21, 2026

Why do Americans tolerate a higher education system that generates and hosts so many avowed enemies?

EURO POSTURING IS SO PATHETIC:

Quick reminder that Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Netherlands, Norway, Spain and the UK all LITERALLY STILL HAVE KINGS RIGHT NOW. pic.twitter.com/8bbAHJr6Ss

— Gain of Fauci (@DschlopesIsBack) January 21, 2026

HAHA, THAT SHIP HAS SAILED, DUDE.

CA Dem Rep Dave Min defends the Clintons during contempt hearing; says that “bringing criminal charges against a former president” would be a very serious matter.

Right, Congressman. Doing something like that would be unheard of and totally crazy. pic.twitter.com/NLpNS6PCPV

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) January 21, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

HIPPITY HOP: Blue Origin launching 6 people to suborbital space on Jan. 22. “NS-38 will be Blue Origin’s 17th crewed spaceflight to date.”

This would have been big in 2012.

NYU’S DISGRACE:

Last week, two NYPD Detectives were mistreated while seeking medical attention at NYU Langone – Cobble Hill Emergency Room after being injured on duty during the arrest of a violent perpetrator. Upon arrival, they were met with rudeness, disrespect, and a lack of basic… pic.twitter.com/HHkNR9Mm71

— Detectives' Endowment Association (@NYCPDDEA) January 21, 2026