Bill Ackman calls out the WaPo.
Category Archives: Education
Open Borders And Closed COurts
” It is like watching your house burn down as the fire department works primarily to prevent anyone else from putting it out.”
Harvard
No task force can save it.
Gay Science
Thoughts on the (much hoped for) decline (and perhaps death) of DEI.
Goodbye To Davos
…and good riddance.
Indeed.
Ackman’s War To Make Universities Accountable
Good. Scorch the earth.
California’s Falling FOrtunes
The Democrats (including Newsom) continue to take a battle ax to the state.
I fear that with the departure of the sensible, the place is in a political death spiral.
The Justified Backlash Against DEI
On how it expanded from the hothouse of the universities to society at large.
ChatGPT
Can it reason?
What Next For Harvard?
Having Gay step down as president doesn’t solve the problem.
[Update a few minutes later]
A Gay fisking (cue whining from Paul in comments that he doesn’t like fisking, so he’s forewarned).
[Update a couple minutes later]
It occurs to me that one of the absurdities that the DEI religionists attempt to impose on normal people (successfully at places like the NYT and AP) is to capitalize “black” as though it is some special privileged status. How does one determine whether a person is worthy of such a prestigious designation? Is Rachel Dolezal? As with being a man or a woman, is it simply a matter of claiming one’s status?
I refuse.
[Update a while later]
Carol Swain’s attorney demands answers from Harvard.
Apropo of nothing, I had lunch with Carol Swain in the fall of 2020 in Omaha (same event where I met Jay Bhattacharya).
[Update a few more minutes later]
Claudine Gay and the great DEI grift.
[Late-morning update]
The real scandal of the Harvard/Gay affair.
Yes, the lengths they were willing to go in defending the indefensible (almost) solely because they couldn’t bring themselves to provide a “victory” to a political opponent is sort of amazing.