Earlier this month I wrote about the University of Texas which was laying off around 60 employees in order to belatedly comply with a state law prohibiting DEI. I say belatedly because the law in question took effect at the beginning of the year but it seems UT’s first reaction wasn’t to get rid of […]
On the 25th of February this year, a young Air Force airman who’d grown up in a religious cult, (then broke free “trading one high control group for another high control group” – the Air Force) gave away his cat and his fridge full of rootbeer. He had already texted his closest friend to apologize […]
NY Times columnist Pamela Paul participated in a weekend conference focused on open debate at Stanford last month. Her last column was about one topic that was discussed at the conference: DEI hiring statements. Today, Paul is back with another column based on the same conference. This time around the topic is university position statements, […]
Like most schools, Brown suspended the use of standardized tests during the pandemic and has continued that suspension each year since even as the pandemic waned. But an investigation at Brown showed that the tests were extremely good at predicting student success and so today the school announced that it is returning to them for […]
In case you’ve never heard of Len Blavatnik (more properly, Sir Leonard Valentinovich Blavatnik), he is a Ukrainian-born businessman and a noted philanthropist. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his philanthropy work in 2017. He is also Jewish. When his family emigrated to the United States in 1978, he studied engineering at Columbia […]
This afternoon a university in beautiful, magical Prague descended into unfathomable hell on earth. Prayers for beautiful Prague and its people. This one hurts bad. pic.twitter.com/Rxjae4yRXy — Learn Latin (@latinedisce) December 21, 2023 A deranged lunatic – a domestic terrorist by any measure – murdered his father, brought the rifle to the university he attended […]
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