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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Charting a Course Correction

Before the Trump administration's sweeping demands for reform in the Ivy League, before "it depends on the context," before the tentifada, before the occupation of Hamilton Hall, before Yale administrators tried to railroad a law student over a "trap house" party, before students screamed at Erika Christakis for imaginary racial insensitivity, before the KKK hoax at Missouri and the Black Justice League occupied the president's office at Princeton—before the last decade of theatrical campus social-justice activism, there was the campus sexual assault panic.

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Harvard Turns to Biden, Obama Lawyers To Fend Off Race-Blind Admissions Enforcement

BOSTON—Harvard is turning to Biden administration lawyers to defend itself from the Trump administration's efforts to make sure that the university has ended race-based discrimination in admissions.

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Kristof Humiliates Himself and Harvard With Israel Dog-Rape Libel

A columnist for the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, who is married to the vice chair of Harvard Board of Overseers, Sheryl WuDunn, publicly humiliated himself Friday afternoon on a Harvard Kennedy School stage for what was billed as the Malcolm H. Wiener Lecture in International Political Economy. It turned out to be not a lecture but a pathetic, apparently unprepared question-and-answer style performance by Kristof, who doubled down on his unverified fantasy that Israel is using a trained dog to rape Palestinian prisoners. Kristof said this had happened to "numerous" prisoners, though he also said he couldn’t say how many. He claimed he knew this based on reports from human rights groups that he said didn’t talk to each other but that he then conceded under questioning did talk to each other.

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At Upwards of $300,000 a Year, Police Officers Start to Out-Earn Professors

In San Francisco, the median police officer earns $301,000 a year in compensation, and the top-earning cop took home $872,000, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. In Los Angeles, 23 police employees earned more than $400,000 in 2025. Some were deputy chiefs but others were sergeants or ordinary officers who worked a lot of overtime, data from the city controller’s office indicates.

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‘Dog Rape’ New York Times Columnist Delivers Another Dud as Harvard Prepares to Honor Him

Nicholas Kristof, the Israeli-dog-rape fantasizing New York Times columnist whose father fought on the Nazi side in World War II and wrote a letter to the Times defending a Vichy war criminal, is back to his old tricks, with a new column that distorts reality about Judea and Samaria while also conceding that even getting rid of Prime Minister Netyanyahu won’t satisfy Kristof or other bitter critics of Israel.

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Judge in Harvard Antisemitism Case Was Anti-Israel, Anti-War Activist, McGovern Campaign Aide

The federal judge who has dismissed a series of antisemitism cases—by the Trump administration against Harvard, by Jewish students at MIT, and by a Harvard Business School student, Yoav Segev, who was assaulted by anti-Israel protesters—turns out to have his own history as a student anti-Israel and anti-war activist.

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Harvard researchers just found out the dark truth about how to simulate the entire world



A massive system has been built to replicate how humans react to products, apps, and websites, without needing humans at all.

Researchers at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology say their network has the ability to simulate the world with "persona agents."

'The agents successfully expressed ... their assigned traits 91.5% of the time.'

Based off a core set of just under 600,000 "human-grounded" personas, coupled with 400,000 synthetic records, the group at MatrAIx says they have found a way to simulate real reactions to questions, products, and more.

The approximately one million personas were used as the basis to create an AI bot population of 8.3 billion, which MatrAIx says can be run like a simulation and act as one giant focus group.

This allows companies to use the simulated personalities to garner reactions to price changes, for example. MatrAIx tested this theory by running its simulation to see whether or not one million people would still buy a 12-pack of Coca-Cola after a $2 increase. The simulation determined 61% of the population still would.

In addition to evaluating hesitation after a price increase, the bots simulated willingness to continue after an AI assistant fails its task as well as latency tolerance for websites, meaning how long a person will use a slow website before abandoning it.

Other examples provided included evaluating a mental health chatbot or shopping on Amazon for an espresso machine under $200 to see which product the AI bots choose and why.

The approach extends to social media apps. Instagram was used as an example where a bot can search for recipes and then watch and save preferred videos. It was explained that the program could have millions of bots doing this at the same time.

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There's just one problem. The agents in the massive simulation cannot be wholly trusted to act the way humans would. As with any AI agent, there is a possibility that an agent in the world sim could fail to perform as instructed or desired.

In Harvard's controlled study of 400 trials, measuring the bots' adherence to 10 behavioral attributes, the results were good but not perfect. "The agents successfully expressed or correctly suppressed their assigned traits 91.5% of the time," the researchers wrote.

MatrAIx, headed by Xiaomin Li (Harvard) and Yuexing Hao (MIT), conducted over 16,000 evaluation trials across eight different types of tasks. They used three large-language models for their studies: Claude Opus 4.8, Chat GPT 5.5, and Claude Haiku 4.5.

Human evaluations of the persona quality, however, were actually lower, listed as an average of 4.135 out of 5, which equates to about 83%.

This roughly 8.5% rate of agents simply failing to adhere to a persona could have large implications for customers who use the bots on a large scale. In the example provided for Coca-Cola consumption, that carries the possibility of 85,000 bots not answering accurately.

But the deeper problem the study confirmed is that Earth's billions of human beings can't be accurately simulated by AI agents programmed to be well-behaved. It's impossible to model and predict human behavior if the agents standing in for the humans aren't allowed to behave in all the devious, dangerous, and flawed ways individuals and groups do.

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That raises the dark prospect that entities or governments seeking ultimate predictive power will have to build large-scale simulators where agents representing real people are allowed to have antisocial, criminal, sinful, or even evil traits and behaviors.

The alternative, deeper human research, is nowhere near as cheap and swift as AI modeling. Most research groups seem to say that human focus groups are not effective at garnering mass public appeal anyway, while at the same time surveys can be a bit more time-consuming. The trade-off is that they are still human.

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Judge Who Ruled Harvard Failed Its Jewish Students Dismisses a Trump Case

Judge Richard Stearns, who in August of 2024 found that “Harvard failed its Jewish students,” has dismissed a different antisemitism lawsuit filed in March 2026 by the federal government against Harvard. 

In explaining his decision, Stearns, a Harvard Law School graduate nominated to the bench by President Clinton, said the government focused “almost entirely on incidents that took place during the 2023-2024 school year.” Stearns said that “Only three incidents are alleged to have occurred after this period, all of which took place nearly a full year later (and more than one full academic year before this case was filed) in March of 2025. Without diminishing any concern arising from these occurrences, the court finds them, singly and collectively, to be too isolated and episodic to support a plausible inference that any institutionalized noncompliance with Title VI persists at Harvard to this day.”

The decision is a legal win for Harvard, but it does not mean the university is in the clear in respect to antisemitism or broader pressure from the federal government or from public opinion, which has turned sharply against “elite” higher education. 

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If You Didn’t Get A Great Education, It’s Never Been Easier To Repair It

Those of us in the majority of Americans who have been deprived of an excellent education have never had more opportunities to remediate ourselves.