Elite higher education in America—long unquestioned as globally preeminent—is facing a perfect storm. Fewer applicants, higher costs, impoverished students, collapsing standards…

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – May 2, 2024 A website reveals the planning and strategy behind the current college mayhem. The recent anti-Israel protests are often portrayed as a spontaneous uprising of student indignation against the Gaza war. But we’re learning that behind the young idealists is an organized movement of leftists who want to spread disorder and...

By: Zach Kessel – nationalreview.com – May 1, 2024 After Northwestern University president Michael Schill announced a set of concessions to encampment organizers Monday that included pledging to implement full-ride scholarships for Palestinian students and faculty positions for Palestinian academics, several organizations have called for Schill’s resignation. ——————– In a joint statement published Tuesday, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Brandeis...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – April 30, 2024 For readers of a certain age, today’s protests at Columbia and other campuses echo 1968 and opposition to the Vietnam war. The kids even took over the same building at Columbia, Hamilton Hall. But the mass-protest method has become the political default for progressives when they lose the policy debate...

By: Becket Adams – nationalreview.com – April 28, 2024 The American news media are here once again to tell you that you aren’t hearing what you’re hearing and seeing what you’re seeing. Sure, you may see a bunch of pro-Hamas activists on American campuses, wearing keffiyehs and frothing at the mouth for a “worldwide intifada.” And, sure, the demonstrations enjoy endorsements from Hamas and...

A black ex-employee allegedly used artificial intelligence to frame the white principal of a Baltimore-area high school as a racist and an antisemite, resulting in relentless threats, harassment, and the principal temporarily being removed from the school.

ByNathan Rothman – nationalreview.com – April 25, 2024 ‘Pogrom’ is an accurate description of what we’re seeing on campuses. There’s something about Senator Tom Cotton that drives his critics to madness. That condition becomes particularly acute when he’s obviously correct. Indeed, Cotton’s correctness maintains a directly proportional relationship with the degree to which he compels his detractors to abandon their good...

LifeWise Academy is being attacked by both the anti-faith Freedom from Religion Foundation and the leftist media. First Liberty is standing with LifeWise so they can continue instilling key values like honesty, integrity, humility and sacrifice into the participating children.

Anti-Israel protests at Columbia University that shut down in-person classes out of fear for Jewish students’ safety have sparked calls for tuition refunds.

It all heads inexorably toward one destination.