ARRESTS AND EXPULSIONS ALL AROUND: Georgetown U. anti-Israel protesters disrupt senior convocation.

PROF. JENKINS: Dear Academe: You have done that yourself: Higher education has completely abandoned its mission—or at least many institutions, and many departments within those institutions, have done so.

BARBARIAN SAVAGES SHOULD BE PUT DOWN. INSTEAD THE WEST’S RULING ELITES CELEBRATE THEM:

When you understand that what ISIS did to its victims at Bataclan is almost identical to what Palestinians did on October 7, you will realize what Israel is up against but on a massive scale. If Israel ever loses, it will be a Bataclan-level massacre x 1000s. https://t.co/R8NAYwKvPt

— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) May 17, 2026

Related:

*Mobs of Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist supporters go after synagogues, block off roads, and assault people*

Mamdani: *Remains silent, and vetoes bill that would create buffer zones around places of worship that don't allow such "protests" within a certain distance*

*Muslim man… https://t.co/e1pe2m7WcJ

— Leftism (@LeftismForU) May 18, 2026

JONATHAN TURLEY: Why Israel’s lawsuit against Times over ‘blood libel’ has a chance.

I BLAME — ER, I MEAN, CREDIT — GLOBAL WARMING: Why Are Bikinis Getting Smaller?

Modern bikinis leave 95% of a woman’s body bare, but men show respect by mostly staring only at the parts that are left covered.

MELT HARDER: Minnesota Dems Melt Down After Gun Ban Vote Fails.

LEFT TO THEIR OWN DEVICES: Review: ‘Blood & Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence in America’ by Noah Rothman.. “This is a book about the assassins, the vandals, the small-cell terrorists, and the lizard-brained mobs that mete out destruction, violence, and death in the name of political causes and in the pursuit of political outcomes.”

This happens because society tolerates it. Society tolerates it because the perpetrators are overwhelmingly children of the elite, or their peers.

IT’S THEATER KIDS ALL THE WAY DOWN:

Will never get over this dude turning from Carlton Banks to young Al Sharpton in basically a weekend.

This is just cosplay. pic.twitter.com/Dobp80iojP https://t.co/nuRJbeyjnU

— Matt Whitlock (@MattWhitlock) May 17, 2026

THE KIDS AREN’T AS ALRIGHT AS YOU THINK: The deeper signal is youth risk did not disappear. It migrated inward.

So the surface looks healthier. Fewer kids drinking. Fewer kids using weed. Fewer kids doing reckless things in public.

The hidden layer looks worse. The young are less reckless because they are less socially embodied. Less initiation. Less unsupervised friction. Less courage-building. Less embarrassment and recovery. Less real dating. Less independence. Less contact with the physical world before adulthood demands it.

The old teenage world produced damage, stupidity, alcohol abuse, pregnancy risk, fights, accidents, and bad decisions. No need to romanticize it. But it also produced social reps. It forced young people through discomfort. It made them practice attraction, rejection, conflict, reputation, risk, repair, and status in the open.

The new world suppresses visible risk while increasing invisible fragility.

That is the trade.

A teenager can avoid drinking, avoid parties, avoid sex, avoid driving, avoid real confrontation, avoid rejection, avoid shame, avoid danger, and still arrive at 23 emotionally underbuilt. Cleaner behavior does not automatically mean stronger formation.

This is why the marriage chart and the teen drinking chart are the same story at different stages. People are not suddenly failing to pair in adulthood. The whole pathway into embodied adulthood has been slowing for years before marriage even becomes the question.

The real truth: society solved part of the teen vice problem by shrinking the arena where teenagers become adults.

I believe this.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

EVERYONE DESERVES A GLOW-UP: NASA’s Perseverance rover is positively glowing in its new selfie on Mars.

VISION: Giant radio telescope sees Artemis 2 astronauts on Orion flying around the moon. ‘There are 4 people in those pixels.’

THEY CAN HANDLE TACO BELL AFTER 30? Humans in The Andes Have Evolved a Strange Digestive Superpower.

Actually, I’ve always been able to digest Taco Bell fine, though I don’t eat it often.

WELL, GOOD: Scientists Uncover Cancer-Fighting Power of Popular Fatty Liver Drug.

AT LEAST IT DIDN’T COME FROM A CHINESE LAB, ANYWAY: France says cruise ship Andes virus matches known South American viruses.

Well, if we can trust the French.

WE COULD USE SOME CHEAPER NEW CARS: Could Nissan Give Us the Cheapest New Car in America Again?

MAKE THEM PAY: Pile On: NSSF Sues Virginia Over Spanberger’s Unconstitutional Gun Ban.

NO MIDCHLORIANS? NO DICE. Casimir force co-opted to generate free energy, midichlorians not included. Personally, I want an Electron Pump. I think the downsides were exaggerated.

MORE NUKES, PLEASE: Stewart Brand on Fixing Stuff, Modern Environmentalism, and the Nuclear Future.

FASTER, PLEASE: Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Serum That Activates a Dormant Ability to Regrow Lost Limbs in Mammals.

USEFUL AT TIMES, BUT OFTEN OVERPRESCRIBED: Antidepressants are in the hot seat. Are we getting them all wrong?

DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Northern California county declares mountain lions ‘imminent threat.’

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: We should consider making ‘cultural appropriation’ illegal – U. Miami law professor.

I.C.E. SHOULD DEFINITELY RAID THEM: Five more colleges plan ‘private’ grad ceremonies for illegal alien students.

Time for some people to check their academic privilege.

CHANGE: Listen to this trucker explain how “foreign” drivers are being sidelined just days after SCOTUS said companies are liable for them.

This is going to cause price increases and supply chain issues in the short term, better pay and opportunities for Americans in the industry in the medium term, and a quicker move to autonomous trucks in the longer term.