Ruth Wisse’s ‘grateful Jewish message on staying power’ Ruth Wisse gives the lecture at the Trump Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on March 25, 2026. (Ira Stoll) March 26, 2026 image/svg+xml The scholar of Yiddish Ruth Wisse began her Jefferson Lecture last night at the Trump Kennedy Center in Washington with the observation that “There
Harvard students will soon be able to take a class about the meaning of Harvard, which is very Harvard—even more so because the new course will be taught by Claudine Gay, the former university president who resigned in disgrace amid plagiarism accusations and criticism of her response to anti-Semitism on campus. More than two years
The University of California, Los Angeles on Tuesday named as its next dean of public health the head of a Harvard University center that was hit with numerous anti-Semitism allegations in a university report last year. Kari Nadeau, the chair of the environmental health department at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will leave
A Harvard Business School professor who participated in a library protest in favor of student anti-Israel protesters is planning to teach a “case” in her class on Friday about divesting from Israeli and other companies because of “their possible complicity in the crisis in Gaza.” A copy of the 26-page “case” obtained by the Washington
The proposed amendment to the state’s constitution would give Democrats a 10-1 advantage in Virginia’s congressional districts Abigail Spanberger (Win McNamee/Getty Images) When Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D., Va.) ran for office last year, she campaigned as a “moderate” and told voters she had “no plans” to gerrymander her state’s congressional districts. Now, she’s pushing for
Young Democratic Socialists of America pledged to ‘liaise’ with banned group that called for ‘death to America’ in apparent violation of university policy L: Columbia Young Democratic Socialists of America Instagram post (columbiaydsa/Instagram) R: Columbia anti-Israel protest ((Photo by Alex Kent/Getty Images) Columbia University has placed its Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) chapter on interim suspension in the wake
A Free Beacon report found that the initiative, housed within the university’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, hosted fundraising training events for the Turkish ‘charity’ Muslim Philanthropy Initiative logo (philanthropy.indianapolis.iu.edu), Indiana University (visitorcenter.indiana.edu) Indiana University has opened an investigation into a Muslim initiative housed within its School of Philanthropy following a Washington Free Beacon report