Higher Education
CBS’s Report on College Food Insecurity Inadvertently Calls for Reform
CBS’s report on campus food insecurity out of UC Davis served its viewers with an unexpected dose of absurdist theater. The report also stands as both an accidental call for fundamental reforms of the American secondary education system, and an ominous look forward should reform not happen.
College Offers Genitalia Cookie Decorating & BDSM Classes
Kalamazoo College's Student Development and Center for Civic Engagement have received backlash for "SexCon", a week-long event centered around sexuality and sexual health. Activities such as genitalia cookie decorating, movie nights, lectures on topics like BDSM, and interactive events like sex trivia were included. A Libs of TikTok post criticizing the event got over 300,000 views. Critics…
Sigh: NYT's Zernike Sees Sexism in Sad Downfall of Ivy League Leaders
New York Times reporter Kate Zernike, infamous here for her hostile coverage of the Tea Party, absorbed an interesting takeaway from the spectacle of three Ivy League college presidents who testified before Congress and refused to condemn rallies in support of anti-Semitism on their progressive campuses: sexism! Zernike’s Monday piece, “Ivy League Campus Wars Aren’t About Gender ...…
Wagner Decries Border Enforcement As Racist, Hails Biden's Economy
MSNBC’s Alex Wagner journeyed over the NBC and Late Night on Wednesday to discuss the state of the 2024 election with host Seth Meyers where she would try to argue that there is something racist or xenophobic about border security and that President Joe Biden “has done a bang-up job” with the economy and other issues.
MSNBC MELTS DOWN Over a Charter School Linking Up With Hillsdale
Last week on MSNBC, The 11th Hour with the not-so-bright host Stephanie Ruhle tag-teamed with leftist Twitter snob, raging hypocrite, and Hack Madness mainstay Judd Legum to throw a hysterical hissy fit over conservatives launching a charter school in South Carolina and Hillsdale College writing grade-school curriculums teaching students to — wait for it — love America.
BREAKING: The Biden Admin’s Strategy to Push Censorship in Classrooms
Like the State Department before it, the DHS is using the University of Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab (the “Rhode Island Lab”) to accomplish its anti-American goals of training teachers to use censorship tools in the classroom and silence political dissent. Biden’s DHS approved a three-phase censorship strategy, set to culminate close to the 2024 presidential election.
Soros-Funded College Lectures on Fighting AI ‘Disinformation’
A college that has received substantial funds from leftist billionaire George Soros suggested tech companies, particularly artificial intelligence, aren’t censoring enough speech.
Scarborough Rants: Biden Best Economic, Military President Since 1945
MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough reacted to Donald Trump’s Iowa Caucus victory on Tuesday by going on a fact-free, pro-Biden rant where he asserted that economy has never been better and that, under Biden, the military is now the strongest that it has been since 1945.
EXCLUSIVE: Newsweek’s Josh Hammer Rips David French for Nutty DEI Take
The New York Times columnist David French has debased himself to become the Paul Krugman of the culture wars by being consistently on the wrong side of the argument.
'Our Bodies Our Sports' Rally Outside NCAA Convention: Keep Men Out
Various women's sports and safety advocates gathered at the Our Bodies Our Sports rally demanding the NCAA to stop discrimination and maintain female sports for biological females only.
House Republicans Advance ‘Pregnant Students Rights Act’
The Pregnant Students’ Rights Act aims to better support students dealing with unplanned pregnancies. The act, introduced by Representative Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa), encourages colleges to inform pregnant students about available resources and their rights. The expected accommodations include added bathroom breaks, medical appointment leave, and maternity leave. The Act passed the House…
President Gay Is a Symptom Not the Cause
The resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay after "facing national backlash for her administration’s response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and allegations of plagiarism in her scholarly work" does not solve the problem at America’s oldest college and other elite schools. She and many other university presidents are only a symptom of what’s wrong with our system of education, from bottom to…
PBS's Phony Claudine Gay Debate: Both Sides Agree Critics Are Racist
Tuesday’s PBS NewsHour dealt with the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay, a shocking move fueled by her botched performance at a congressional hearing on pro-Hamas protests held on progressive college campuses. Gay was further doomed by myriad examples of plagiarism within her incredibly modest collection (for a Harvard president) of published research. But tax-funded PBS…
AP's Take on Gay Ouster: Plagiarism 'Conservative Weapon' vs. Colleges
The Associated Press story on the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay was a pathetic woke whine from headline to text: “Plagiarism charges downed Harvard’s president: “Harvard president's resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism.” It got no better: "Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist who helped orchestrate the effort against Gay, celebrated…