Diversity, Equity, and Confabulation
If The Onion or Babylon Bee or another satirical publication wanted to spoof the absurdity of DEI — the ideology of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” — they couldn’t have invented a character as unbelievable as Jason Arday. But Arday is very real: Born in 1985, in 2023 he became at 37 the youngest black man ever to hold a professorship at Cambridge University.
NY Times Smears 'Racist' Scholar Who Exposed Plagiarist Cambridge Prof
The New York Times has finally noticed the academic credibility meltdown at one of the premier universities in the world, Cambridge. Ex-professor Jason Arday, a plagiarist and fabulist who rocketed up the academic ladder, enabled by gullible or perhaps intimidated fellow scholars, aided by lawyerly muscle to keep doubters quiet. Yet the Times article saved its harshest words for Arday’s…
LAME: Columbia Taps Alfonsi, Pelley as ‘Journalists in Residence’
On Monday morning, Columbia Journalism School reminded the public of how much it’s a waste of time and money as a black hole of far-left propaganda by declaring that they were “pleased to welcome” former CBS’s 60 Minutes correspondents Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi as “Journalists in Residence” for the upcoming academic year.
Oliver Suggests College's Conservative Rebrand Was Worse Than Nazism
HBO’s John Oliver returned to 2023 and 2024 on Sunday’s edition of Last Week Tonight as he sought to explain why Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and current university president Richard Corcoran, and conservative activist Chris Rufo’s rebrand of New College of Florida is worse than the Nazis.
How a Climate Scientist Was Attacked by WH, Congress, & His Own School
Billionaire Tom Steyer used his money to attack a lone climate researcher. Roger Pielke Jr.’s research on climate and disaster policy wins awards and is cited by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “My views are entirely mainstream,” says Pielke. “My work is cited by all three working groups of the IPCC. There’s nothing contrarian.” Both Steyer and Pielke agree that…
The Silenced Generation
Are America’s college students doing to themselves what the Chinese Communist state does to its citizens? An Ivy League professor — an old-fashioned liberal who actually cares about free speech — recently warned me about what’s happening in classrooms like his. He encourages class discussion of the great books he teaches in class — but students are afraid to speak, not because they’re afraid…
Colleges Are Making Political Violence Worse
The ranks of would-be presidential assassins are a cavalcade of losers, yet the latest shooter who set out to murder Donald Trump — the man who opened fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Sunday — turns out to have an elite educational background. Cole Allen is a graduate of CalTech, the prestigious California Institute of Technology. In the most recent City Journal college…
Apple TV Drama Slams Capitalism While Ironically Benefitting from It
Last season, Apple TV’s drama Your Friends and Neighbors sparked outrage over a blasphemous scene mocking the Holy Eucharist in a Catholic Church. This season, their target is capitalism as young, smug teen Tori (Isabel Gravitt) goes on a liberal rant in an interview with a college admissions official at Princeton University.
DePaul University Launches Lori Lightfoot Anti-ICE Media Institute
Attention DePaul University donors! Do you want to check out how your funding is being put to use? The institution just initiated an obnoxious, new anti-ICE journalism institute in partnership with radical ex-Mayor Lori Lightfoot and another Chicago-based left-wing group financed by some of the most notorious leftists in American politics.
CBS's O'Donnell Lets Gov. Wes Moore Avoid Answering Resume Questions
Last Sunday CBS's Things That Matter welcomed Maryland Governor and possible Presidential candidate, Democrat Wes Moore to their Town Hall. Aside from expecting, and hearing the usual questions tossed at a Democrat, there was a waiting game involved as well. Waiting to see if Host Norah O'Donnell would confront Moore about recent revelations made in the Free Beacon, which call into question…
PBS Fawns Over Author's Smear of Trump 'Authoritarianism' on Campus
Monday’s Amanpour & Co. on PBS (and CNN International) invited former Columbia University president Lee Bollinger to promote his book criticizing the Trump Administration for squelching free speech (a common theme of late on previously federally funded media lately). His new book rages against "authoritarianism" under Trump, which pleases CNN and PBS.
Reporter Admits Kids Go To Southern Colleges Because of the Politics
On CNN This Morning, Boston Globe reporter Beth Teitell is reluctant to admit that many Northern students choose to go to college in the South to escape the leftist politics.
California College Math Problems Ignored By Network Evening News Shows
On Thursday November 6th, the University of California, San Diego released a report that is undoubtedly worthy of the attention of any fair minded news organization. The problem is of course, that we don't have many who would fall under that category. The report shows that from 2020, the start of the pandemic, to this current year, the percentage of incoming freshman at the University, whose…
PBS Skips Jew-Free Zones at UCLA While Weeping for Academic Freedom
Tuesday’s PBS News Hour committed some serious bias by omission in Stephane Sy’s report from the campus of UCLA, home to actual Jew exclusion zones during the 2024 wave of pro-Hamas protests that plagued progressive college campuses. This August, UCLA settled with three Jewish students and a Jewish professor over the university failing to protect their civil rights against anti-Semitic campus…
