The New York Times Denounces Cancel Culture . . . After Fueling Cancel Culture for Years

For those of us who have criticized the cancel culture in higher education for years, the attacks and shunning have unrelenting. The media has played a role in that culture and none more prominently than the New York Times. Recently, however, the mob came for liberal professors and media who have remained silent for years…

The New York Times Denounces Cancel Culture . . . After Fueling Cancel Culture for Years

DON BRASH: Letter sent to the Vice Chancellor AUT

The following was written on behalf of Hobson’s Pledge: Dear Vice Chancellor Damon Salesa, We are a group of New Zealanders whose primary objective is to fight for equality under the law and advance the vision Governor William Hobson expressed at Waitangi in 1840. He is said to have spoken the following words to each…

DON BRASH: Letter sent to the Vice Chancellor AUT

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler’s legacy is one of infamy and horror, with his name forever associated with the atrocities of the Holocaust and the devastation of World War II. His rise to power and the events of his regime serve as a stark reminder of the dangers of totalitarianism, xenophobia, and unchecked authoritarianism. He was born on […]

Adolf Hitler

GARY JUDD KC: A law school to be avoided – Auckland University of Technology

The Dean of the law school at the Auckland University of Technology is someone called Khylee Quince. I have been sent her social media posting in which she has, over the LawNews headline “Senior King’s Counsel files complaint about compulsory tikanga Maori studies for law students,” written these enlightened words: What sort of lawyers will…

GARY JUDD KC: A law school to be avoided – Auckland University of Technology

Vic’s proposed speech suppression code

The FSU reports: Last week, we were sent draft principles for what discourse Victoria University intends to allow on campus. … “We should not provide a platform for, nor invite, individuals or groups to speak on campus that have previously demonstrated or are expected to express hate speech as the current law defines…” So Vic […]

Vic’s proposed speech suppression code

Majority of Northwestern’s Anti-Semitism Task Force Members Resign Over Deal With Protesters

The backlash over the settlement of Northwestern University with pro-Palestinian protesters continues to mount. In a letter acquired by The Daily Northwestern,  seven out of 11 members of the “President’s Advisory Committee on Preventing Antisemitism and Hate” resigned this week in protest.

Majority of Northwestern’s Anti-Semitism Task Force Members Resign Over Deal With Protesters

Jonathan Haidt and Candice Odgers debate the relationship between social media and mental health

Does social media worsen mental health for young people, especially young women? It has become an article of faith for many that it does. And there is bountiful anecdotal and research evidence that supports the view. Take, for example, the furore that erupted back in 2021 around Frances Haugen’s leaking of internal Facebook research showing the negative…

Jonathan Haidt and Candice Odgers debate the relationship between social media and mental health

Two Videos from a “Liberal” licking a Red Pill

If you thought the political cartoons from earlier today were funny you’re going to love the next two videos. Just don’t kid yourself that libertine comedian Bill Maher is going to vote GOP in this year’s election, let alone for Donald Trump. He’s not red-pilled yet, merely rolling it around on his tongue to see […]

Two Videos from a “Liberal” licking a Red Pill

For the woke

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“Zionists Don’t Deserve to Live”: Columbia Student Leader Under Fire for Violent Rhetoric

A student leader at Columbia is under fire this week over a newly-resurfaced video declaring that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.” Khymani James has been one of the leaders at the anti-Israel encampment at Columbia and featured prominently by media outlets. He is reportedly the spokesperson for Columbia’s anti-Israel student group Apartheid Divest James embodies the type of radical […]

“Zionists Don’t Deserve to Live”: Columbia Student Leader Under Fire for Violent Rhetoric

Hiring discrimination sentences to ponder

Several common measures — like employing a chief diversity officer, offering diversity training or having a diverse board — were not correlated with decreased discrimination in entry-level hiring, the researchers found. But one thing strongly predicted less discrimination: a centralized H.R. operation. The researchers recorded the voice mail messages that the fake applicants received. When a company’s […]

Hiring discrimination sentences to ponder

Peak Woke at GMU: A Belated Critique

In late 2020, George Mason University publicly released this statement on behalf of the Presidential Task Force on Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence. (Archived here in case GMU tries to flush it down the memory hole). When I first received the statement via email, I was stunned. I’d long known that the GMU administration leaned left.…

Peak Woke at GMU: A Belated Critique

A wonderful bit of prose

I’ve described in these pages what I consider to be the finest prose written in English; it includes the beginning of The Raj Quartet, by Paul Scott; the ending of The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (but there’s also great stuff in Tender is the Night); much of Thomas Wolfe (especially “The Child by Tiger“, […]

A wonderful bit of prose

Diverse MBA teams perform worse

From “Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams” (SSRN): Among the randomly-assigned teams [of MBA students], greater diversity along the intersection of gender and race/ethnicity significantly reduced performance. However, the negative effect of this diversity is alleviated … [when teams can choose their teammates]…teams with more female members perform substantially better when their faculty section leader was also…

Diverse MBA teams perform worse

UCLA goes bonkers, hires unhinged “activist in residence” to give a lecture mandatory for all entering med-school students, who are forced to pray for “mama Earth” and chant pro-Palestinian slogans

The last time I posted something about an article by Georgetown University Law Professor Jonathan Turley, I believe someone beefed because Turley was a conservative, implying that his articles couldn’t be trusted. Well, I deplore the attitude that you can judge the veracity of claims using the ideology, race, or gender of someone who reports […]

UCLA goes bonkers, hires unhinged “activist in residence” to give a lecture mandatory for all entering med-school students, who are forced to pray for “mama Earth” and chant pro-Palestinian slogans

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