Higher Education
Finkelstein vs Wax: New York Times Double Standard on Academic Freedom
Leftist professor Maura Finkelstein, conservative professor Amy Wax, and the New York Times’ double standard on academic freedom: In the last two years the paper has run four major articles, two on Finkelstein’s controversy and ultimate firing, and two on Wax’s controversy and ultimate suspension. While these articles contain some nuanced arguments, the headlines and subheads make…
Ruhle Laments Policy Changes After Boulder Firebombing Attack
MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle traveled over to HBO and Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday to discuss the Trump Administration, Harvard, and the recent firebombing attack in Boulder, Colorado. While Maher and The Dispatch’s Jonah Goldberg tried to take a nuanced approach to the issue, as well as with Trump’s fight with Harvard, Ruhle was more rigid as she insisted we should not “…
Daily Show Spreads Fake News About SCOTUS, Labels It 'Snowflakes'
Leah Litman is a law professor, podcaster, author, and on Wednesday, a fake news-peddling guest on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. During her appearance with Michael Kosta, Litman came across as a profoundly unserious person who took quotes from conservative Supreme Court justices wildly out of context and was more interested in name-calling.
PBS Host: I Prepared For US Visit 'As If I Was Going to North Korea'
CNN/PBS anchor and self-styled journalist Christiane Amanpour recently gave a wild, anti-Trump commencement speech at Harvard where she invoked everything from 1984 to Benito Mussolini, but that may not have been the wildest part of her recent trip to America. On her Tuesday podcast installment of The Ex Files—so named because she co-hosts it with her ex-husband, Jamie Rubin—…
Kimmel Echoes Disgraced Author's Rumor On Trump's Fight With Harvard
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel claimed on Tuesday to uncover the true reason for President Donald Trump’s fight with Harvard: Harvard rejecting him back when he was a student. The only problem for Kimmel was his source was disgraced author Michael Wolff.
Dickerson Urges 'All Of Us' To Heed Pelley's Anti-Trump Speech
On May 19, 60 Minutes’s Scott Pelley went to Wake Forest University to give what was advertised as a commencement speech but in reality was a partisan diatribe warning that President Trump is a threat to all things good and decent. While Pelley urged the graduates to resist Trump, on Friday, colleague John Dickerson urged “all of us” to pay attention to Pelley’s words on …
LOL: Liberal MSNBC Sports Guy Denies Harvard Is 'Hotbed of Liberalism'
Morning Joe regular Pablo Torre, a Harvard alum who comments on sports and politics, denies that Harvard is a "hotbed of liberalism." His one bit of evidence in support of his claim is that the basic economics course at Harvard USED to be taught by an economic adviser to President Reagan. Torre ignores studies like the 2022 one revealing that "more than 80 percent of Harvard faculty…
ABC Hypes 'Rigorous Vetting' Of Chinese Students That Repeatedly Fails
The Friday editions of ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today both employed Harvard Professor and former U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns to attack the Trump administration’s move to “aggressively” curtail student visas to Chinese nationals. As Burns was both networks’ sole expert, much critical information about the administration's concerns was noticably missing…
PBS Host Cites '1984,' Mussolini To Urge Harvard Grads To Resist Trump
CNN and PBS host Christiane Amanpour stopped by the Harvard Kennedy School on Wednesday to deliver what was billed as a commencement address, but was really just a plea for the graduates to find the courage to fight back against nameless forces—but understood to be President Trump and people who support him—who are pushing America into a 1984 or Mussolinian state of affairs.
Glaude: Trump's Harvard Moves Align With WFB's 'Assault' On Yale
On MSNBC's Way Too Early, Princeton professor and MSNBC contributor Eddie Glaude Jr. says that Trump's moves on Harvard are: "the culmination of a longstanding assault on the part of the right on critical spaces that cultivate, shall we say, a disposition of skepticism and suspicion towards authority...Just think about William Buckley's God and Man at Yale. "
CBS's Scott Pelley Rages In Favor of DEI at College Commencement
There’s nothing like giving a college commencement address to stir the pot. At Wake Forest, CBS's Scott Pelley raged about DEI: "Diversity is now described as illegal. Equity' is to be shunned. Inclusion is a dirty word. This is an old playbook, my friends. There is nothing new in this....Ignorance works for power."
MSNBC Portrays Trump As An Insult To Memorial Day
With the solemn annual observance of Memorial Day just a few days away, MSNBC’s Ali Velshi welcomed columnist and SiriusXM’s Dean Obeidallah to his Saturday show to politicize the honoring of the nation’s war dead by claiming President Trump stands for the opposite of everything those men and women died for.
Amid Battle With Trump, ABC Acts Like Harvard Is Nation's Only College
On Friday, ABC’s Selina Wang reported for World News Tonight the latest developments between the Trump Administration and Harvard. The latest battle is over Trump’s move to ban the school from enrolling foreign students, but based on Wang’s reports, someone might assume that Harvard is the only university in the country. At the same time, on NBC Nightly News, Andrea…
Lemire Chuckles at Trump Admin Claim Harvard Coordinated With CCP
On Morning Joe, Jonathan Lemire chuckles as he mentions the claim by the Trump administration, in explaining its decision to revoke Harvard's right to enroll foreign students, that Harvard is "coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party." Lemire needs to read the letter to Harvard from the House Select Committee on the CCP, which describes: Harvard’s repeated training of members of the…
