RT @robkhenderson: There are two distinct types of envy. The first is benign or upward-looking envy: you see someone with something you l…

Another Berkeley professor told the author: “In my second-year engineering class, a student asked me to explain why 1/2 1/3 = 5/6…. The lecture had to stop while I explained fractions.”

A Cornell student got an interview offer on Handshake — the school's own career platform — and replied that he's "not interested in working for a Jew." Austin Franco, 19. Industrial and Labor Relations. The school that teaches employment discrimination law. When the screenshot went viral he didn't apologize. Said his "experiences with Jews have not been pleasant." Cornell says it's investigating. Seven months ago Cornell paid the federal government $30 million to close its antisemitism investigations and unfreeze $250 million in research funding. The ADL's 2026 report card still grades the campus a C — climate concern rated high, incidents up year over year.

This is what happens when all the adults go up to the cottage for the long weekend, and there leave the keys to the @globeandmail social media account with the 22 year old social justice intern

RT @sapinker: And my favorite, from Boyan Slat: "Problem-solvers take an issue and cut it up into small, solvable chunks. Problem-sellers d…

The demographic cliff is here. Syracuse offered students significant discounts to attend but still ended up under-enrolled. The university has already offered buyouts to 175 professors and closed 93 majors. And the pop. of 18-year-olds “will decline for the next 15 years.”

Over 4000 workers just became millionaires by owning the means of production and the socialists are pissed

Je vais partir du principe que tu es de bonne foi, parce que ton raisonnement est intuitif et que 90% des gens le partagent. Mais il repose sur trois erreurs factuelles, et ça vaut le coup de les regarder calmement. Erreur 1 : la fortune d'Elon n'est pas un tas d'argent. C'est de la propriété d'usines, de fusées et de satellites. "Prendre la moitié de sa tune", concrètement, ça veut dire forcer la vente de la moitié de SpaceX et Tesla. L'argent ne sort pas d'un coffre, il sort des entreprises elles-mêmes, qui passent sous contrôle de fonds étrangers ou d'États. Tu ne redistribues pas du cash, tu démantèles un outil de production. C'est la différence entre récolter des pommes et découper le pommier. Erreur 2 : "ça résout énormément de problèmes dans le monde". Cette expérience a déjà été tentée, en vrai. En 2021, le directeur du Programme Alimentaire Mondial de l'ONU a affirmé que 6 milliards de Musk pouvaient "résoudre la faim dans le monde". Réponse d'Elon : décrivez-moi exactement comment, comptabilité publique à l'appui, et je vends mes actions Tesla immédiatement. Le PAM a publié son plan. Verdict : ce n'était pas "résoudre la faim", c'était nourrir 42 millions de personnes pendant un an. Un an. Puis il faut re-payer, pour toujours. Le PAM avait d'ailleurs levé 8,4 milliards l'année précédente, et la faim était toujours là. Les ONG traitent les symptômes en boucle, jamais les causes, parce que leur financement dépend de l'existence du problème. Erreur 3, la plus importante : tu cherches ce qui sort vraiment les gens de la pauvreté. Bonne nouvelle, on a la réponse, et elle est massive. En 1990, 36% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Plus d'un milliard de personnes sorties de la misère en 30 ans. Par quoi ? Pas par la charité ni par l'aide internationale (plus de 1 000 milliards versés à l'Afrique en 60 ans pour un résultat à peu près nul). Par l'ouverture des marchés, l'industrialisation, le commerce. La Chine seule a sorti 800 millions de personnes de la pauvreté en abandonnant le collectivisme, pas en taxant ses entrepreneurs. Donc fais le calcul complet. Option A : tu confisques 500 milliards, tu finances quelques années de programmes, l'argent est consommé, et tu as détruit la machine qui produisait les fusées, les voitures électriques et l'internet des zones rurales. Option B : tu laisses le meilleur allocateur de capital de sa génération réinvestir 100% de sa fortune dans des industries qui baissent les coûts pour tout le monde et emploient des centaines de milliers de personnes. L'option A soulage ta morale pendant 18 mois. L'option B sort des populations entières de la pauvreté pour toujours. La pauvreté ne se redistribue pas. Elle se résout par la création. C'est contre-intuitif, c'est frustrant, mais c'est ce que disent 200 ans de données.

Applebaum: What binds Russia, China, Iran and North Korea is not religion or ideology. China is communist, Russia nationalist, Iran theocratic. What binds them is fear of liberal language: rights, rule of law, separation of powers and independent courts. 1/

Christ. I did business in Russia for 15 years. I have made at least 50 trips there and speak Russian (very badly). MY children were born in Russia for God's sake. FACT: It is a third-world country striving to be second world. It is a strange and weird place. Nothing is as it seems. If she had to live there she would want out ASAP

A lot of people seem angry that Elon is now a trillionaire, so it’s worth reminding them that he didn’t achieve this by making anyone else poorer. Wealth isn't zero-sum. Paul Graham explained it well: paulgraham.com/wealth.html

The Tenth Commandment has never been more relevant or necessary than today. Malicious envy is now treated as political and moral virtue.

Remember the viral video last year of the young Scottish girl who brandished a knife and axe at a violent migrant to protect herself and her sister? The video was called “propaganda” and dismissed as far-right lies by liberal media and leftists. A trial showed the girls weren’t lying. A migrant pursued sexual activity with one of the children and came back to violently assault them with his migrant sister after he was rebuffed. Both the migrant siblings were convicted. @France24_en @VedikaBahl, the French state-funded news broadcaster, called the girls liars and blamed @elonmusk and Tommy Robinson. Read about the conviction: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2d…

Well now, look what we have here. Something advertising itself as a "center for the defense of academic freedom" is gearing up a campaign of vilification against programs that are revitalizing civic education at colleges and universities around the nation and helping to ensure that students are exposed to a diverse range of viewpoints. I suppose it's not surprising that people who have enjoyed a virtual ideological monopoly would fight tooth and nail to keep it. That's how monopolists work.

The Mellon Foundation just spent $1.5M to help the American Association of University Professors’ Isaac Kamola “name and shame” and delegitimize the new classical civics schools at UF and UT Austin—rare outposts of sanity teaching Western civ and viewpoint diversity inside otherwise leftist-dominated universities. John Sailer reports: city-journal.org/article/mel…

Here's a list of the reasons women provide for why they got an abortion. The least common explanation was incest, followed by rape. The most common was that having a baby would be a lot to handle.

No, Pope Leo, you are wrong. Al-Andalus wasn't an interfaith utopia, it was 800 years of jizya, beheaded monks, forced conversions, and Maimonides fleeing for his life. You're peddling a fairy tale that gets Christians killed. idicenter.org/article/the-vi…

Mohsen Mahdawi is 34 years old. He first enrolled at Birzeit University in the West Bank in 2008 and studied there for six years. In 2018 he enrolled as an undergraduate at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. He stayed there until 2021, and never earned a credential despite enrolling as a seventh year senior and being a full time student there for four years. Despite this extremely suspicious academic record, he was admitted as a transfer to Columbia University — a school which rejects over 97% of applicants — where he attended as an undergraduate for another four years. Columbia’s rules explicitly state that students must be progressing toward an on-time graduation, but they accepted Mahdawi as an eleventh year undergraduate and allowed him to remain a student in good standing even though he was evidently not maintaining a full course load. His student status was a pretext; he was acting as a full-time anti-American, anti-Jewish and pro-terrorism activist. Since he claims to be a Palestinian refugee, it is unclear who was paying his tuition or providing for his rent and expenses in New York City while he was engaged in subverting American institutions. He finally earned a bachelor’s degree in May 2025 from one of the top five American universities after 17 years as an undergraduate and was accepted to a master’s program at Columbia even though the State Department was already trying to deport him on national security grounds. Democrats at every level fought hard to keep him in the country.

I don't know what Piketty, Stiglitz, and co. are smoking. Global poverty rates have never been lower. Progress on basic global health and wellbeing measures has been amazing over the past few decades. "End of the road"?!? Come again!?! theguardian.com/commentisfre…