Lindsey Malcom-Piqueux received a ‘promotion’ to associate vice president for campus climate, engagement, and success Lindsey Malcom-Piqueux (ccid.caltech.edu), Caltech Center for Inclusion & Diversity post (@CaltechCCID) The California Institute of Technology has changed the title of its top diversity official but kept the office she oversees intact, the latest example of how institutions are attempting
Al Sharpton used MSNBC airtime this weekend to promote a DEI-related boycott of PepsiCo that he launched through his activist group, National Action Network. It’s the latest instance in which Sharpton has blended his dual roles as MSNBC host and head of the nonprofit—a practice that has landed both Sharpton and the liberal network in
Former Columbia University president Katrina Armstrong told the federal government on Tuesday that she could not recall students calling for the destruction of the state of Israel. Nor could she recall hearing of allegations that students spit on their Jewish counterparts. Or that a member of the faculty had, in class, described Jewish donors to
Congratulations to Sen. Cory Booker for his record-breaking non-filibuster rant, which lasted 25 hours and 5 minutes. The previous record holder was South Carolina’s Strom Thurmond, who went 24 hours and 18 minutes. A source close to the late senator once told me Thurmond was equipped with something called a “motorman’s friend.” Could Booker have
One of the more curiously inapt proverbs, especially as it applies to politics, is the idea that, while success has a thousand fathers, failure is an orphan. We know, in fact, from the thousands of accounts that pour forth after every presidential election, that the paternity of electoral defeat in particular is litigated over as
Chuck Schumer can’t catch a break. Not long after being sworn in as the first Jewish leader of the U.S. Senate, the Democratic Party came down with a bad case of anti-Semitism. It inspired him to write a book, Antisemitism in America: A Warning, in which he recounts how John F. Kennedy’s assassination really dampened the
You might say that Churchill’s Citadel, by Katherine Carter, is a book about Chartwell, a house in the lovely Kentish Weald, just 24 miles southeast of the Houses of Parliament in Westminster. You might also say that it is a book about Winston Churchill himself, who fell in love with the ramshackle Henry VIII-period pile