“To understand the world before 1900, Columbia University students read a range of texts and authors… To engage with the contemporary world… they read texts that are important to understanding only the perspective of the contemporary left.” Ross Douthat nytimes.com/2024/04/27/opi…

“The leakage of prestige from politicized universities is overdue and wholesome. Those schools that once were preeminent and now are punchlines might soon have a bruising rendezvous with real politics…” George F. Will, Washington Post Opinions washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

“These days, there’s only one #Blockbuster left on Earth. It’s in Bend, Ore., about 820 miles from my home in Los Angeles.
But I’ve traveled farther for stupider reasons.” @JulCarm washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/04…

#BobHope on #presidents : “I’ve golfed with them, dined with them, told jokes with them. I’ve even had them steal my material… As long as it’s funny, you can say almost anything to them and get away with it” @POLITICO #WestWing Eli Stokols Lauren Egan politico.com/newsletters/we…

“the opinion I am here to express—that I think hating Jews is a bad idea—is considered so radical as to raise legitimate concerns about potential violence if I dare utter it in a public forum such as this one.” Victoria Coates, The Daily Signal dailysignal.com/2024/04/25/her…

“For decades now the #NewYorkTimesBookReview has been devoted to reinforcing received (and mostly wrong) literary opinions and doing so in impressively undistinguished prose.” Joseph Epstein in @WeeklyStandard, 2010. Helpfully preserved by @DCExaminer washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/14469…

“A mob now rules Columbia University… The mob action goes beyond the issue of Israel’s military campaign against Hamas terrorists in Gaza or this one campus. It is an attack on basic American ideas of order & rule of law as well as a bigoted smack at the Jews” National Review nationalreview.com/2024/04/columb…

“Daniel S. Loeb, a #Columbia graduate, has begun to reconsider whether to focus offering jobs at his hedge fund to fellow alums & other #IvyLeague schools like Harvard University & Yale University… he’s broadening his focus to schools like #Yeshiva , FLORIDA & #Emory ” Charles Gasparino nypost.com/2024/04/24/bus…

“My advice to Jewish students at these institutions: Come on down… in red states, such intimidation, harassment & lawlessness aren’t tolerated... Maybe the degrees aren’t from #Columbia , but the way things are going, is that so bad?” @GlennReynolds nypost.com/2024/04/24/opi…

“this American president is happy to show spinal steel condemning a bunch of bigoted chuds with tiki torches, but is desperate to show spinal flexibility when it comes to far more numerous bigots in his own coalition.” Jonah Goldberg #GFile @TheDispatch thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfi…

I fed pal @MattKLewis this item in #FilthyRichPoliticians : “Joe even helped make #JFK ’s book #ProfilesinCourage a #PulitzerPrize winner. Joe also made sure his son’s books sold. When he died, unopened boxes of #WhyEnglandSlept were found in the basement of his #HyannisPort home”

“So don’t be shy. Bring out your best tableware. Buy the choicest, juiciest roast. Look your best. And don’t let the hyper-judgmental, ‘woke’ historical grave robbers rob us of our joys.” Gil Troy, “Telling Our Story,” Jewish Journal jewishjournal.com/cover_story/35…

.David Sanger’s “book, subtitled ‘China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, & America’s Struggle to Defend the West,’ is a must-read. Painstakingly researched, #NewColdWars brims w on-record interviews & observations by thinly veiled sources.“ Lloyd Green @Guardian theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

“Christian nationalists play many of the same games as Islamic activists, but critics of the Christian radicals are treated as enlightened by mainstream elites while critics of the Islamic radicals get called ‘Islamaphobes.’”
Jonah Goldberg, @TheDispatch thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfi…

“as bad as our leadership problem is, our followership problem is worse. I am not a fan of Joseph de Maistre—a great critic of democracy in all forms—but he had a point when he said people get the government they deserve” Jonah Goldberg #GFile @TheDispatch thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfi…

#LarryDavid : “Trick-or-treating: It’s stupid.” “And at 12 years old, you thought this?” @JimmyFallon asked incredulously. “Yeah, I knew that at 12… And then the costume?! The costume! You gotta put a costume on? Come on.” @AllieGriffin04 nypost.com/2024/04/17/med…

I’ve always held political and policy views considerably to the right of Joe Lieberman’s views. But I’m proud that such a great and good man was an avatar representing Jews to the America and the world. | Ballabon
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“When you’ve used the apparatus of higher ed to recruit, coddle, & reward activists & their habits of mind, being on their side won’t save you when those activists become the mob. If you don’t like monstrous outbursts, stop inviting monsters” @Tal_Fortgang nationalreview.com/2024/04/law-sc…

“Ken Holtzman, MLB's winningest Jewish pitcher who threw 2 no-hitters for the Chicago Cubs & helped the Oakland A's win 3 straight #WorldSeries championships in the 1970s, has died... Holtzman won 9 more games than the #Dodgers ' great #SandyKoufax ” #RIP cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/n…

“In Chicago on Saturday, 300 anti-war activists were meeting to discuss plans to disrupt the #DNC in August when an activist took to the stage to announce that Iran had attacked Israel. The crowd burst into cheers...” Gabby Deutch Haley Cohen Jewish Insider jewishinsider.com/2024/04/pro-pa…