Thoughts on the (much hoped for) decline (and perhaps death) of DEI.
Category Archives: Education
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.
Sympathy For Claudine Gay
She is a piece of work. Be sure to get to the end where he roundly fisks her resignation letter.
[Update a while later]
Link fixed now, sorry.
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.
[Update a few minutes later]
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.
[Update a few minutes later]
The pitfalls of benevolence.