Khalil was born in Damascus and grew up in Syria, Lebanon and Algeria — all countries with nearly non-existent Jewish populations. What Jew "who's trying to kill you" is he even talking about? More than anything — and I wish Ezra Klein had dug into this — it speaks to how those

We had no choice but to use motorized paragliders of death, and machine gun down a bunch of innocent concert goers and families in their homes is certainly a take.

Harvard College is experiencing catastrophic, institutional-failure-level grade inflation. Only drastic reforms, including a mandatory curve, can fix it.

Justice Sotomayor thinks that Justices have "earned" their seats, so even a constitutional amendment can't limit their tenure. Justiceships are guaranteed by pre-constitutional meta-due process? Surprisingly dumb view... (via Rick Pildes) electionlawblog.org/?p=151478

Here's a Politico article that (rightly!) decries the erosion of free speech in Britain. What I find remarkable about it is that it avoids any mention of the most egregious assaults on free speech--arresting people for praying near abortion clinics and harassing people for

Analysis of US college syllabi by the Open Syllabus project shows that bell hooks is assigned more than Aristotle, Judith Butler more than Plato, Edward Said more than than Kant, and Foucault more than everybody. (Thanks to Jon Shields for these comparisons.)

To which academic department could a student turn to hear serious and sustained criticisms of hooks, Said, Butler, Freire, and Foucault? English? Gender studies? Education? Anthropology? Sociology?

Washington has persistently way worse crime than cities like New York and Los Angeles. This is a real, serious problem and Democrats need to treat it as such by proposing better solutions than Trump, instead of accusing him of faking a crisis. joshbarro.com/p/crime-in-was…

Part of “what unions do” in a functional center-left party (and no longer do in America) is channel the actual views of working class people into leadership circles so the party doesn’t get totally dominated by the avant garde views of intellectuals. slowboring.com/p/democrats-st…

Why students would feel the need to fake progressive views for their professors is a very important question, and one that progressive professors should be asking of themselves.

English was once a highly popular major, because it taught people to think, to weigh alternative interpretations, and to write. Captured by far-left activists, its intellectual value to students has plummeted. It won’t be long before universities start closing their English

I’m sorry but it’s hard to get over the picture of the airmen on their knees, in front of the Russian jet, rolling out the red carpet for a mass murderer. Just never thought I’d see that.

"ABA Council on Legal Education ignores critics, offers no substantive responses, and says 'full speed ahead' with disrupting legal education at most of the nation's law schools" leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2025/08…

I fear that city government under Mamdani's leadership will turn a blind eye to harassment and intimidation of Jewish New Yorkers. There's a lot of that already, but there could soon be more and worse.

Professor Steven Pinker is right. He understands what free speech is ... and what it isn't. There is no need for confusion about this.

"[T]he schools that were likely forced to change their curricula the most in response to the reform did not experience improvements in the very student outcomes the ABA uses to evaluate law school performance." In a sane world, that would be decisive. In this world ...

Ghislaine Maxwell said she never saw Trump do anything “inappropriate.” She also said she never saw *anyone* do anything inappropriate. CASE CLOSED!