Category Archives: Education

What Next For Harvard?

Having Gay step down as president doesn’t solve the problem.

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A Gay fisking (cue whining from Paul in comments that he doesn’t like fisking, so he’s forewarned).

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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.

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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).

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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.

Claudine Gay

…has gone away.

I’m not as optimistic as Glenn is that this, or October 7th, represented a sea change. She is, after all, still at Harvard as a full professor, despite her obvious mediocrity and venality. But I hope that it’s woken enough people up from woke that the Democrats will finally (and deservedly) lose the automatic Jewish vote.

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She’ll do fine. Sadly.

Happy 2024

Let’s try to enjoy the new year for at least a day. I fear that we’re in for a rough ride.

Speaking of which, thoughts on the coming war between the macroculture and microculture.

I’ve thought about starting a Substack, but I’m not sure I want to devote enough time to it to make it worthwhile reading.

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The pitfalls of benevolence.

AIAA SciTech

As you can see in the left sidebar, I’m planning to attend next month in Orlando. They used to be in San Diego, and I haven’t been to one since before the pandemic. ASCEND was a huge upgrade over their previous annual space conference, and I’m curious to see how much SciTech has changed in the past few years.

As you can see from the program, it has a wide variety of papers on not just space (my primary interest, as always), but aviation as well. The number of simultaneous topics is overwhelming (as it has been in the past), but I’ll be interested primarily in sessions on space resources, space assembly and servicing, life support for larger facilities, nuclear propulsion (both electric and thermal), human logistics in space and space medicine, advances in additive manufacturing, AI applications and, of course space policy. I’ll also be discussing my own participation in the Cislunar Ecosystem Task Force, which was first announced at this event a year ago.

I don’t know if there will be any news broken there, but if there is, I’ll be blogging about it here. I won’t be attending Friday, because I have to be in DC. But I will be there Monday through Thursday, and I hope I’ll see some of you there.