‘It would not be appropriate for me to make public comments at this time,’ Derek Penslar says in statement Derek Penslar (Twitter/University of Washington) The head of Harvard University’s anti-Semitism task force backed out of a panel on anti-Semitism he was scheduled to participate in Sunday, citing an unwillingness to answer questions publicly “about goings
Three U.S. service members were killed and many wounded during an unmanned aerial drone attack on U.S. forces stationed in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian border, President Joe Biden said on Sunday, blaming Iran-backed groups for the attack. “While we are still gathering the facts of this attack, we know it was carried out by
Hey you! Beatles fans! I want a show of hands. How many of you believe that the following story—it comes from Philip Norman’s new biography, George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle—has the faintest scintilla of a possibility of being somewhere close to a simulacrum of a story that might, conceivably, be within a hundred bazillion miles
Events of the last several months (if not years or decades) have amply demonstrated the moral and intellectual rot at the heart of our elite academic institutions. Ivy League universities in particular have become quasi-religious cults (attached to billion-dollar hedge funds) less interested in teaching than they are in preaching their gospel of radical nonsense.
In the acknowledgments to her book Class, Stephanie Land explains why she wrote her first book, Maid. “I wanted to dismantle stigmas surrounding single moms, especially those who parent under the poverty line.” Her new book seems to have a similar goal. It covers what she calls “my hungriest year,” when she is 35, her
The events of this past week suggest President Joe Biden is planning to get out there on the campaign trail and actually run for reelection instead of hiding in his basement where he belongs. It’s going to be a long election season. Biden, 81, was alarmingly incoherent during a series of campaign-style events in the
One student group has pledged to shut down ‘business as usual at MIT’ during upcoming semester Sally Kornbluth (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) A group of concerned parents is urging the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to impose “serious consequences” on student protesters who violate school rules and disrupt class, accusing university leaders of failing to provide “an