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How’s that old joke go? The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country. The New York Times is read by the...

Typical Friedman. You need to wade through the preening and portentous stating of the obvious to get to the core of solid common sense.

In this case, I think he’s right. The protesters know not...

Well, they are colonizers. You might be able to convince some students to occupy the Entomology Department and demand divestment of honey-related companies.

There’s an interesting article in the Atlantic that makes a pretty convincing case that honeybees are not in fact threatened as a species. They claim the panic is in large part a cultural artifact. I...

I see that Columbia’s president (she’s a Baroness back home in the UK) has decided to cancel the university’s commencement into several smaller ceremonies in response to potential disruptions like...

Will Zuccotti Park go down in history along with Valley Forge?

One wag said that Gov Noem’s dog is still biting her from beyond the grave.

Is it? A small minority of students at a small minority of schools (plus the usual non-student hangers-on) have managed to inconvenience everyone else at their campuses. That doesn’t strike me as a...

It’s interesting to juxtapose a country confronting an exterminationist culture with privileged students demanding that Sabra hummus be banned on campus.

Years ago, I was the Controller for a county government about 50 miles north of Madison, WI. One of the stormiest board meetings I ever attended was a debate on building an animal shelter. On one...

I see the cops have cleared that building at Columbia the Hamas sympathizers broke into. They issued demands for global Intifada and free food, but got zip ties instead. Jamaal Bowman decried the...

These seem to be sentiments they’ve honored more with words than deeds in recent years.

Does the First Amendment apply to pitching a tent on private property? If you camp on my lawn and present me with a list of demands, I’d be setting the cops on you.

When the people who shout...

I think you may be right. Some people who see another four years of Trump as “An existential threat to our democracy” and Biden as “Complicit in genocide” will need to decide which hyperbolic...

I started at U of Illinois in 1976, and participated in the AFROTC program there. There was a certain amount of jeering and sneering and threats aimed at people in uniform then. It seemed to mainly...

So at a couple of dozen campuses we are seeing an outbreak of “occupation” campouts. Maybe in the belief that university administrations are critical contributors to the Israeli defense...

I knew a guy who returned from an overseas deployment to find squatters in his house. It took something like five months to get rid of them.

I can hear you now.

I think there is a spectrum of homelessness ranging from the totally feckless to people whipsawed by the housing market to privileged kids getting suspended from Barnard and whining about being...

https://www.wsj.com/world/china/chinese-money-american-universities-244bab09

It seems the Chinese have been the largest source of foreign money since 2013.

I assume there are conspiracy theory...

I was thinking more class disruptions and antisemitic romps, but you’re right.

The People’s Republic of China has also been pouring cash into US universities for some time now.

I see that Israel ignored Biden’s advice to “take the win” and do nothing. The Iranians referred to the attackers as “infiltrators” rather than “Israelis”, which may mean they won’t or can’t...

I see Berliner has been suspended without pay for not getting prior approval for “working outside the network”, and warned he will be fired if he does it again.

Over the years, NPR seems to have...

Happened all over the country. Coming as they did so soon after that mostly peaceful Iranian attack, you have to wonder who’s handling their schedules. Doubt they won a lot of hearts and minds in...

I see that after this weekend’s flagrant act of self-defense, outraged protesters decided to block traffic all over the US.