Says the mouthpiece for a regime that gasses students; persecutes dissenting faculty; is waging a war on women, artists, dissidents, religious and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+; and is a literal police state.

EXCLUSIVE: UCLA medical school is launching a probe of its mandatory 'health equity' class—and warning whistleblowers they could be punished if there are any more leaks.

It's also promised to address concerns that the course is antisemitic with—you guessed it—more DEI.🧵

Finally. This was not a microaggression. 👇

Still waiting! 🧬

Timely and characteristically excellent analysis from Jeffrey Flier, professor at (and former Dean of) Harvard Medical School, and co-president of the Harvard Council on Academic Freedom.
quillette.com/2024/04/25/aca…

My advice to university presidents is the same as that of Robert P. George. I’d appreciate any rational counter-arguments. Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard

Defending Academic Freedom in Higher Education and Medicine : my new piece Quillette quillette.com/2024/04/25/aca…

NEW: UCLA medical school's mandatory health equity class teaches students that weight loss is a 'hopeless endeavor' and that 'ob*sity' is a slur 'used to exact violence on fat people.'

The full syllabus has shocked prominent doctors—the former dean of Harvard Medical School.🧵

We're live for our panel discussion on the (mis)use of diversity statements in academia -- join us!

youtube.com/watch?v=PcPVte…

Looking at the signatories, I believe Columbia will suffer no harm, and could benefit from their boycott.

This is the best I have read about how DEI ideology in the academy gained influence and transformed itself via politically astute administrative managers in alliance with a new class of activists, whose work made many unwilling to protest due to fear of career-harming blowback.

Wow, indeed! Theo Baker

Two must read opinion pieces The Harvard Crimson - both explain problems with campus pro-Palestinian protests, and are far more cogent than the majority Crimson editorial, which is poorly argued at best. thecrimson.com/article/2024/4… thecrimson.com/article/2024/4…

A woman now living in Berkeley: When she was 4, Nazis burst into her bedroom & took her family to Dachau. She survived that concentration camp & was smuggled out of Germany by a Christian woman. Yet the antisemitic harassment she has witnessed in the Bay Area terrifies her. This…

Two must read opinion pieces The Harvard Crimson - both explain problems with campus pro-Palestinian protests, and are far more cogent than the majority Crimson editorial, which is poorly argued at best. thecrimson.com/article/2024/4… thecrimson.com/article/2024/4…

The latest paired The Harvard Crimson op-eds by members of Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard . First, by Kit Parker, 'If it Rights the Ship, Harvard Can Inform a New Renaissance.' thecrimson.com/column/council… Then, by Arthur Brooks, 'Make Harvard Happy Again.' thecrimson.com/column/council… Stimulating reads!