UC Berkeley Law Review Poised To Delete All Application Records After Editors Pledged To Select Applicants Based on Race

The flagship law review at the University of California, Berkeley, is poised to delete all internal application records after the Washington Free Beacon reported on the journal's use of personal statements to promote a "diverse membership," sparking concerns that the journal is attempting to destroy evidence that could be used against it in the event of a discrimination probe.

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Laughing in a Hard Loud World

The son of Sri Lankan immigrants, Randy Boyagoda grew up on the northern shore of Lake America, in the soon-to-be-annexed Territory of Mar-A-Lago North. In addition to teaching literature at the University of Toronto, he is a celebrated novelist and essayist. He is also a lifelong Catholic, whose third book was a biography of Richard John Neuhaus. Similar to Neuhaus in the past, Boyagoda today is living proof that religiously oriented public intellectuals are not extinct.

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Trump Is Bashed at Princeton Orientation

Princeton’s first-year orientation program for the entire incoming class of 2030 featured an author who refused to publicly pronounce the word “trump” while the university’s president, Christopher Eisgruber, “sitting across from her, smiled and said nothing.” 

That account comes from a student in the class, Simon Riley, who wrote an article faulting the campus orientation for events that “only present a left-leaning perspective.”

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Behind Closed Doors: Wild GW Conference Devolves Into Anti-Israel Hatefest Plotting How To Resist ‘Zionist Billionaires’ and ‘Weaken the Zionist State’

A private conference at George Washington University's prestigious Elliott School of International Affairs—convened to discuss the war on terror—became two days of far-left ranting overwhelmingly focused on attacking Israel, "Zionist billionaires of the Epstein class," "U.S.-Zionist genociding," and "Anti-Blackness and the Historical Legacy of Amerikkka," among other familiar boogeymen to American academia.

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Harvard’s New Hires Will Headline ‘Jewish Anti-Zionism’ Event

In court documents and public statements amid Harvard’s multi-billion-dollar fight with the Trump administration over antisemitism, the university has pointed to new faculty hires as evidence of what Harvard calls its "commitment to combating antisemitism and anti-Israeli bias."

"Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences has dedicated additional resources for the study of Hebrew and Judaic studies, including … an offer out for a chair in Jewish history and culture," the university said. Harvard Divinity School "hired for the position of the Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in Residence."

Those two new professors are scheduled to appear next month at what is being billed as a "symposium and book launch" on "Jewish Anti-Zionism." To judge by the book and the speakers invited, the event seems less aimed at critically assessing the ideas and more at promoting them.

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Harvard Celebrates Its Boycott-Israel, Blood Libel Nobel Laureate

Harvard University is cheering a Nobel Peace Prize winner who is being widely denounced elsewhere as a bigot.

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Yale Professor Couple Under Fire for Attending Chinese Conference, Guided Tour in Brutally Repressed Xinjiang Region: Prof Praised China for ‘Respect for Minority People’

Two Yale faculty members are facing scrutiny for traveling to an "academic forum" in China's far-flung Xinjiang region, where China has been accused of rampant human rights abuses against the ethnic Uyghurs, including locking them up en masse in re-education camps. The forum's organizers and accompanying tour included institutions linked to a Communist Party "paramilitary organization sanctioned by the U.S. government," according to a new investigation by the intelligence firm Strategy Risks.

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American College Students Prefer Socialism to Capitalism, Survey Finds

A nationwide survey of undergraduate students conducted by Yale University’s Buckley Institute, a conservative student group, found that the popularity of socialism is surging among college students just as socialist political candidates are rising in American politics.

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In Cornell Sexual Assault Case, Democrats Forget the Lessons of the Duke Lacrosse Scandal

Two decades ago, a spectacular allegation of gang rape at a prestigious university seized the public’s attention. We all know how the Duke lacrosse case ended: with the prosecutor disgraced and disbarred; the accused students declared innocent; and (albeit much later) the accuser admitting that she lied.

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'Hitler Was Right All Along': Haverford Professor Charged With Stalking Jewish Coworker Has Long History of Threatening 'Jew Rats' Praising Nazis in Suspended Posts

A Haverford College professor arrested for cyberstalking a Jewish coworker has an extensive online trail of violent antisemitic rantings that frequently praise Hitler and the Holocaust, a Washington Free Beacon review of his social media activity.

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