We are constantly told how necessary it is to find the”root causes” of everything, from crime, to illegal immigration, to the wave of antisemitism spreading across many college campuses and in our streets.

By: Daniel Henninger – wsj.com – December 13, 2023 It may be no coincidence that colleges are abandoning SATs at the same time three university presidents were flunking questions in public about genocide. After receiving Fs for insisting that the answer to any direct question is “It depends on the context,” University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill lost her job...

Minnesota School District Urged to Grant Opt-Out from Sexual Curriculum to Religious Families Families had been previously denied opt-out requests, but after letter from law firm, school district may grant requests. St. Louis Park, MN—First Liberty Institute and […]

By: Elise Stefanik – wsj.com – December 7, 2023 College presidents are directly responsible for the hatred that has flourished on campus since Oct. 7. But when I asked Harvard President Claudine Gay at a congressional hearing whether calls for the genocide of Jews violated the university’s rules on bullying and harassment, she answered: “It depends on the context.” Pressed...

By: Ron E. Hassner – wsj.com – December 5, 2023 But only 47% of the students who embrace the slogan were able to name the river and the sea. Some of the alternative answers were the Nile and the Euphrates, the Caribbean, the Dead Sea (which is a lake) and the Atlantic. Less than a quarter of these students knew...

University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill has resigned amid pressure from donors and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say under repeated questioning that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy.

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – December 7, 2023 They must have felt good about themselves and their performance in the moment. The smirking condescension to which the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology treated a House committee this week suggests that the display of moral vacuity they put on was practiced....

Gerrymandering Jews into an ‘oppressed’ class won’t save universities from a malevolent ideology.

Harvard, whose president testified during the congressional hearing, came in dead last on FIRE’s 2024 free-speech ranking list.

By: John Ellis – wsj.com – December 4, 2023 America faces a formidable range of calamities: crime out of control, borders in chaos by design, children poorly educated while sexualized and politicized against parental opposition, unconstitutional censorship, a press that does government PR rather than oversight, our institutions and corporations debased in the name of “diversity, equity and inclusion”—and more....