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.

Wall Street Journal reporter Molly Ball recently published a story explaining how pro-abortion rights Democrats have “changed their message.” They are reaching into the conservative playbook and commandeering terms that have long been associated with the center-right movement.

By: Christopher F. Rufo – wsj.com – January 3, 2024 The left has spent decades consolidating power across the institutions of American academic life. The crowning achievement of that effort was the diversity, equity and inclusion bureaucracy—constructed to perpetuate progressive dominance of higher education by keeping conservatives out of the professoriate. Claudine Gay was in some respects the apotheosis of...

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – January 3, 2024 Let’s not lose sight of the significance of this outcome. I have heard it lamented in recent days that, despite the scale and consequence of the evidence that was presented against her, the removal of Claudine Gay from the presidency of Harvard University still took “far too long.” This,...

A triumvirate of government, corporate, and academic institutions are involved in efforts to control free speech by cutting off the funding for its exercise. NRA v. Vullo deals with efforts by government agencies to target the advertisers of conservative websites to kill funding for opposing views.  

If it’s New Year’s, it must be time for resolutions and predictions

By: Caroline Downey – nationalreview.com – January 1, 2024 Since former University of Pennsylvania male swimmer Lia Thomas stole a title and trophy from then-University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines at the 2022 NCAA Women’s Championships, the fairness-in-women’s-sports issue has roiled American politics. It’s been two years of lobbying by advocacy groups and activists such as Gaines to protect women’s...

By: Kimberley A. Strassel – wsj.com – December 21, 2023 Less than a month from the Iowa caucuses, the high court faces the prospect of deciding whether Colorado—and other states—can scrub Donald Trump from the ballot on grounds that the leading candidate for the Republican nomination engaged in “insurrection.” It’s also being asked to rule on whether special counsel Jack...

Concerns about President Joe Biden’s age are “universal” and the “only nonpartisan issue left in this country,” according to the Washington Examiner’s Sarah Bedford.

There are few subjects today that occupy more attention and debate in our culture than the Millennial generation.