Harvard Derangement Syndrome | My new essay in the New York Times nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opi…

"Harvard, as I am among the first to point out, has serious ailments," writes Steven Pinker for The New York Times. "The appropriate treatment...is to diagnose which parts need which remedies, not to cut its carotid and watch it bleed out." nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opi…

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Everything is more expensive and tariffs are the reason why

Charlie Kirk did not confine himself to the company of the already converted, and he seemed to enjoy venturing into the fray and arguing with liberals and leftists—the more of them at once, the better. We honor his legacy by settling our differences with words, rather than

“Thirty-four percent of college students recently said they supported using violence in some circumstances to stop a campus speech, according to a poll from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression published a day before the Kirk shooting. Since 2021, that share has

Thank you ⁦Matt Welch⁩ & ⁦The Fifth Column 🖐⁩ for this timely post. THIS is what media is for! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

Ezra Klein on Charlie Kirk: “You can dislike much of what Kirk believed and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the era’s most

Today’s The Fifth Column 🖐 is superb. We are all reeling from the assassination of Charlie Kirk and Michael C Moynihan, Matt Welch and Kmele 🖐 provide a balm of common sense. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

A non-trivial problem with public discourse today is that people are either incapable or uninterested in nuance and unwilling to recognize the inherent ambiguity of language. And some people with large platforms are not capable of subtle reasoning or they benefit from pretending

Academics convinced their institutions to build infrastructure for censoring and punishing free speech, and in a turn that should surprise no one, it is now being used against them.

This is going to be a Rorschach test for a lot of people. What I see when I look at this is the harm of a quasi-mystical idea of “hate” as a spectral, even demonic, force. It’s a superstition that allows you to turn off your critical faculties, ignore anything that might

In the middle of Ken Burns’ “Baseball,” George Will explains American democracy in terms largely forgotten by partisans and journalists today. Please watch and spread around!

This is an example of government breaking your legs, handing you a crutch and expecting a thank you. Farmers deserve markets, not bailouts

More relevant with every passing day. George F. Will via Ken Burns. HT TheHistoryOfTheAmericans

My department HWS Colleges has an open VAP position in #ecology and #evolution. Applications due Jan 20 apply.interfolio.com/179542

Local police routinely, put officers involved in deadly shootings on administrative leave until an independent investigation is concluded. That should happen immediately. I can’t recall ever hearing a police chief immediately describing the victim as a “domestic terrorist” or a

GOP Sen. Rand Paul: When people watch that video, and the government tells them, 'well he was assaulting the police officers,' no party with objectivity believes that is what is happening[…]No American believes he was assaulting the officers.