Ann Coulter: Hate Watchdogs Need Glasses

 Ann Coulter

"In November 2019, thousands of antifa tried to prevent me from speaking at UC Berkeley. They failed for only one reason: The Proud Boys were there. Ditto with speeches I gave in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Antifa came, but so did the Proud Boys. Order was maintained." 

"Too bad the Jewish students being harassed on campuses don’t have the Proud Boys around to protect them. They can thank the Anti-Defamation League’s Jonathan Greenblatt for making that impossible.

"Greenblatt could see right through the Proud Boys’ stated mission of supporting Western Civilization. Ha! Mere camouflage for “a right-wing extremist group with a violent agenda.”

"Similarly, the Southern Poverty Law Center alerted liberals that the Proud Boys were “extremist” and “white nationalist.”

"Wikipedia’s entry on the group is a 20,000-word libel. (Apparently, the group “us[ed] ‘Western chauvinism’ as euphemism for the white genocide conspiracy theory” — just like Wikipedia uses “The Free Encyclopedia” as a euphemism for “left-wing bile.”)

"There is literally nothing about “white nationalism” or “white genocide” in anything the Proud Boys said about themselves. Or “right-wing,” for that matter, unless prizing Western culture is now the exclusive province of the right wing.

"How about these statements: “Zionists don’t deserve to live,” “Go back to Poland!” “Burn Tel Aviv” — all said recently by protesters at Columbia University. Or how about a Palestinian flag and the words “FINAL SOLUTION” at George Washington University?" . . .

"I guess the ADL and SPLC didn’t see that coming, despite their exquisitely sensitive antennae for “hate.”

"Arguably, these hate watchdogs took their eye off the ball by labeling conservatives “white nationalists” merely for admiring the West, opposing mass immigration, defending the police, writing books about IQ, attacking feminism, hating identity politics or warning of Islamic terrorism.

"It sure seems like conservatives weren’t the biggest threat after all, eh, Jonathan?" . . .

Every Republican is a Nazi to the left, just as every conservative is a Jim Crow racist to MSNBC's Joy Reid. TD

Why Protest on Campuses With No Connection to the Israel-Hamas War?

 The American Spectator | USA News and Politics  It’s all about making activists feel good.

"The activism for activism’s sake on American campuses does not save a single Palestinian. It does salve the feelings of privileged American kids." 

"What societal institutions, other than mosques, show a greater receptivity to the pro-Hamas message than the campuses?

"Neither transgenders wearing keffiyehs nor the great number of students owning high-end glamping gear strikes as the strangest thing about the protests. Their location does. 

"Martin Luther King did not march on Cambridge Common or Telegraph Ave. He demonstrated in Montgomery, Selma, Birmingham, Atlanta, and points beyond where governments, businesses, and powerful people discriminated against African Americans. He risked hearing jeers rather than cheers because he wanted change, not an ego boost. He suffered not merely jeers but jail, hurled foodstuffs, a stabbing, the invasion of his privacy, and ultimately assassination so that others would not suffer.

"Demonstrations generally follow this pattern of addressing grievances directly at the source.

"PETA protests medical research facilities that perform experiments on animals, not vegan restaurants that serve sesame noodles. Strikers demonstrate outside of the factories that pay them less than they demand, not outside the union hall. Pro-lifers hold placards on the sidewalk next to Planned Parenthood clinics, not churches.

"If PETA did make its case in a vegan restaurant, then one imagines many a customer might shout “Hear, hear.” This would make the PETA protestors feel good. But it seems unlikely to advance the group’s principles.

"This hypothetical forces the question, for what purpose do the protestors make their voices heard in the very places where their voices dominate? Proximity seems the obvious and partly right answer. Other reasons pertain to the inability of many progressives to operate outside of their intellectual ghettos and the desire of many young people for affirmation. No explanation for why the campuses serve as the site of the protests involves the connection of the universities to the war, of which tangential seems too strong a word, or the grounds of elite schools serving as an effective platform to save Palestinian lives, which they are not.

"The protests that canceled classes at UCLA, forced Columbia to move to remote learning, and closed Cal Poly-Humboldt for the semester look like a performance. It all probably felt exhilarating and cathartic. But in terms of propelling the cause of the Palestinians, the demonstrations proved entirely ineffective." . . .

Why Are Women in America Cheering for Hamas and Iran?

Phyllis Chesler - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

These pro-Jihad protests are one way to escape the ongoing female realities in the West.

Israeli women with Gazans.

"Have you noticed that young women all across America are demonstrating for Hamas, Iran, and Palestine? Why would such privileged and educated women, the heirs to the #MeToo movement and to Second and Third Wave Western feminisms, cheer for male rapists and male killers, arguably the most blood-thirsty and sadistic misogynists this side of Ghenghis Khan? Why side with Islamist barbarians who have jailed, tortured, and executed their own women over a slipped Islamic veil, and who would forcibly convert their Western female admirers to Islam, veil them as well, and coerce them into polygamous marriages?

"Do these educated daughters of affluence understand that were they to express any views deemed dissident in Gaza, Teheran, or Kabul or, were they to announce that they were “queer” or gay, (which is how some of these activists identify themselves), that they would be instantly honor killed?

"In the months since 10/7, in addition to the odious, faux-feminist silence about the gang-rapes of both women and men, the torture of babies and whole families, the kidnapping of civilians — a terrifying tsunami of hatred towards Israel, America, and Jews has exploded into non-stop jihadi-style, belligerent mobs, whose goal is to disrupt civil society and gain both attention and followers for their reprehensible views. The news of Hamas’s pogrom on steroids, unleashed their Jew hatred, and whetted the mob’s appetite for more of same.

"Post Iran’s most recent attack on Israel, in the past few days in New York City, where I live, such activists camped out on the lawn at Columbia University “for Gaza,” “for Hamas,” endangering Jewish students, daring to be arrested. For the first time, Columbia’s President actually had them arrested. Although they were all quickly released, many returned later that same night, with celebrities in tow, to re-constitute their encampment. (READ MORE from Phyllis Chesler: Opera House Bigotry)

"Those who were detained, included the daughter of Democratic Congresswoman and “Squad” member, Ilhan Omar; a young female intern for New York State Attorney General Letitia James; a third young woman who is about to intern for Democratic Senator Dick Durbin; and two daughters of corporate titans. Three of the five are Columbia students." . . .

10 Lies Democrats Tell About Elections (And How To Refute Them)

 Shawn Fleetwood (thefederalist.com)

"Here are the 10 biggest lies Democrats tell about U.S. elections so you can identify and combat these mistruths."  

"Biden and Democrats love to contend that “democracy is on the ballot” this November. The insinuation, of course, is that the republic as we know it will collapse if Trump and Republicans emerge victorious at the ballot box. Yet, for all their professed concerns about “democracy,” Democrats are doing everything in their power to destroy it."

"There is almost no subject the left won’t lie about. Whether it’s denying basic biology or fabricating “bloodbath” hoaxes about their top Republican rival, no topic is off limits for the Democrat “disinformation” police — and that includes elections.

"Since the 2020 election, Democrats and their media allies have worked overtime to smear Americans concerned about the integrity of U.S. elections. No matter how legitimate these concerns may be, the left slanders anyone who challenges controversial elections won by Democrats as so-called “election deniers.”

"Putting aside the fact that Democrats have questioned elections they don’t win (see the Trump-Russia collusion hoax), it’s important to highlight that the left regularly lies about America’s elections to further their party’s goal of acquiring and maintaining government power. In service of this goal, no falsehood is too great.

"Here are the 10 biggest lies Democrats tell about U.S. elections so you can identify and combat these mistruths.

1. Election Integrity Laws ‘Suppress’ Voters

"Under the guise of Covid, many states expanded the use of unsupervised mail-in voting, permanently changing the electoral landscape and how modern elections are conducted. With Covid-era lockdowns now in the rearview mirror, many Republican-controlled states have spent the past several years returning their election systems to pre-Covid practices and moving away from unsupervised methods.

"'With their election machine that thrives off the insecure mail-in system threatened, Democrats have taken to dishonestly attacking GOP-backed election integrity laws. The most common of these smears is the debunked claim that voter ID laws suppress voters, especially those who aren’t white. Of course, there’s no evidence to support such assertions, as multiple court rulings have found.

One of the more egregious examples of these attacks came from President Joe Biden, who grossly labeled a benign 2021 Georgia election law as “Jim Crow on steroids.” Contrary to Democrats’ smears, Georgia experienced record early voter turnout during the state’s 2022 midterms. A poll conducted after the election also revealed that zero percent of black Georgia voters said they had a “poor” experience voting." . . .  Full article here.

Unredactions Reveal Early White House Involvement in Trump Documents Case

 RealClearInvestigations; Julie Kelly  

"Top Biden administration officials worked with the National Archives to develop Special Counsel Jack Smith’s case against Donald Trump involving the former president’s alleged mishandling of classified material, according to recently unsealed court documents in the case pending in southern Florida.

"More than 300 pages of newly unredacted exhibits, containing emails and other correspondence related to the early stages of the hunt for presidential papers, challenge public statements by Joe Biden about what he knew and when he knew it regarding the case against his political rival.

"The new disclosures indicate the Department of Justice was in touch with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) during much of 2021, undermining the DOJ’s claims that it became involved in the matter only after the Archives sent it a criminal referral on February 9, 2022, based on the findings of records with “classified markings” in 15 boxes of materials Trump gave to the Archives a month prior.

"The court exhibits, which were compiled by Trump’s defense lawyers and kept under seal until last week, also show that Deputy White House Counsel Jonathan Su regularly communicated with Archive officials.

"Although Biden himself is not mentioned in the exhibits, the active participation of Su and other high-ranking White House officials raises questions about whether Biden was forthright when he told “60 Minutes” he wasn’t involved in the investigation.

"“I have not asked for the specifics of those documents,” Biden told Scott Pelley in the Sept. 17 broadcast, “because I don't want to get myself in the middle of whether or not the Justice Department should move or not move on certain actions they could take. I agreed I would not tell them what to do and not, in fact, engage in telling them how to prosecute or not.” . . .

Japanese Politicians Roast Biden on Immigration 'Failures' After Biden Calls Japan 'Xenophobic'

Brandon Morse – RedState

When asked, KJP first said the President was "very clear," but was further asked for clarification to which she gave a word-salad response.

"President Joe Biden made some very unkind comments about Japan on Wednesday, comparing the nation to Russia and China over what Biden says is economic stagnation due to "xenophobia." 

"As RedState covered earlier on Thursday, Biden said that Japan isn't accepting enough migrants to its country leading to an economic downturn. It's an odd statement to make, given Japan's status as an important ally: 

“One of the reasons why our economy’s growing is because of you and many others. Why? Because we welcome immigrants,” Biden said at a Washington fundraising event for his 2024 re-election campaign and marking the start of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. . . .

. . ." According to Fox News, Japanese politicians didn't take this insult lying down. Responding to Biden's accusations of xenophobia, Mizuho Umemura, a member of the conservative Nippon Ishin no Kai Party, who holds a seat in the House of Councilors, pointed out that migration is a huge problem in Europe and that few countries have actually solved that issue. 

Umemura noted that Biden should "solve the problem in New York before he says things like this," and that the next presidential election could see a complete reversal of America's immigration policy, so there is "no need for Japan to follow suit.". . .

Ouch. That'll leave a mark. TD

Trump Hails 'Great Meeting' With Ron DeSantis, Says They 'Will Work Together To Make America Great Again'

 The Political Insider

"Donald Trump celebrated a “great meeting” with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over the weekend and suggested his former GOP rival is now offering support to his 2024 presidential campaign.

"Is this finally a ‘kumbaya’ moment for the formative Republican duo?

"The Washington Post first reported on the meeting which a mutual friend brokered. They describe the meeting as “friendly.”

"Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, posted on his Truth Social media platform suggesting a collaboration of some sort may be in the works.

“ 'I am very happy to have the full and enthusiastic support of Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida,” he writes. “We had a great meeting yesterday …”

“ 'The conversation mostly concerned how we would work closely together to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,” adds Trump. “Also discussed was the future of Florida, which is FANTASTIC!' ” . . .  Video  Sure, make it great again until the next Democrat takeover. TD

"Kristi Noem should give it up"

 

AF Branco Townhall

Stop digging, Kristi Noem -Monica Showalter  . . ."She should just go back to being a good governor and not fight this, which only makes her look desperate. Owning up to her mistake would be even better. But at a minimum, she should stop digging. Going back to being a good governor will supercede anything bad coming from this bad voter-repelling blunder.

"Sometimes, damage-control is worse than the damage."

It isn't as if she supported the Hamas baby-burners anyway. No photos of her wearing a Kaffiyeh so far. TD

Jew phobia: "We have lost the battle against insanity. Perhaps we never fought it. Regardless, the world has gone quite mad." Phyllis Chesler

 Surrender in the battle against Jewphobia; a real and present sickness. TD

Phyllis Chesler; Pro-terrorist “protesters” dare to demand that the university they have disrupted give them food and drink.   "We have lost the battle against insanity. Perhaps we never fought it. Regardless, the world has gone quite mad.

"I just witnessed this on the Columbia University campus. A young white female student, draped fashionably in a keffiyeh, stood at a microphone and demanded that the administration provide food and water to the student “protesters” lest they die of dehydration or starvation.

"Yes, she actually said that." . . .

Let's Be Clear on What We Are Witnessing: Terrorists, Not Freedom Fighters . . ."While some may claim that Hamas are freedom fighters because they want Gaza to be independent of Israel, they qualify as terrorists because the methods they use match the definition of terrorism. They intentionally kill civilians. They also use rape and the taking of hostages. Furthermore, the Hamas Covenant calls for the annihilation of Israel and the Jews, which again, does not match the definition of a freedom fighter. The US colonists never had the elimination of Britain and the British as a goal." . . .

Anti-Israel college students want to spew hate with 'amnesty'    . . ."And, though the media has done it’s best to whitewash the ugliness of the protests, most of these demonstrations feature objectively antisemitic messages. Encampments are meant to intimidate fellow students and the administration.

"Most of them are also closed off to pro-Israel counter-protesters. “Pro-Palestine” marches are as pro “free speech” as they are anti war. Which is to say, not at all.

"They want free speech only for themselves, and ceasefires only for Jews. Hamas is welcome to any brutality it likes." . . .

AF Branco- Townhall

Here comes help to understand Biden’s evil approach to the Israel-Hamas war - Andrea Widburg   "We’ve all seen how Biden has been trying to manage Israel’s war against Hamas—and he’s been doing so in a way that hampers Israel’s ability to fight an openly genocidal enemy. The question is why he’s doing this. I know that I have inchoate ideas about Obama’s Iran policy and Biden’s long-standing animosity toward Israel, but Lee Smith drills deeper and comes up with something even more disturbing...and manifestly true.

"The Tablet article is entitled, “Saving Hamas: The Palestinian terror organization refuses to release hostages while clinging to its last stronghold in Rafah. So why is the Biden administration throwing the full weight of the U.S. government at Israel to prevent it from routing Hamas?” The first two paragraphs clearly explain the essay’s premise:

Reports are circulating that the Israelis are planning an operation in Rafah to eliminate the last Hamas stronghold in Gaza. If so, the Netanyahu government will be acting against the very public wishes of the Biden administration, which has spent the last half year moving heaven and earth to save a terrorist organization from destruction." . . . 

. . ."But here’s the kicker: It’s not just hatred for Israel or love for Iran that’s driving the Obama and Biden train. There’s more...but you have to click on over to Tablet to get the stunning denouement."

How many of these people are paid by George Soros and his yokefellows?

Outside Instigators: Nearly Half of Those Arrested at Columbia and CCNY Were Not Students – HotAir   . . ."Lisa Fithian is the author of a 2019 book called “Shut it Down,” a guide to strategic civil disobedience and has worked as a political organizer for decades, supporting political demonstrations across the country, including Occupy Wall Street in 2011; the protests in Ferguson, Mo., that followed the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by the local police in 2014; and the antiracism movement after the death of George Floyd in 2020.

"She has also run workshops for other activists. Unions and activist groups have paid her $300 a day to run demonstrations and teach their members tactics for taking over the streets, according to a 2012 profile in Mother Jones magazine." . . .

Pictured below are Hamas captives about the same age as those on campus wearing Hamas scarves; one fears they may have been murdered by their captors (who may soon be attending class next to your children). How can these campus people support this? I guess those young people will just be written off by the left as "Islamophobes".TD

A leader who cannot- and will not-lead

You pay so I win - Richard Berkowitz   "Biden wants you to pay for the education of the rioting know-nothing anti-Semitic students who hate America and Jews and embrace Hamas.

"He needs their votes and believes excusing their education debt, which SCOTUS has ruled he cannot do, is the way to victory.  His contempt for the justices and the Constitution is unparalleled in the history of presidential behavior.

"Not only is this amoral but, it is one of the worst presidential teaching lessons it’s possible to imagine.  Biden  says you are not only not responsible for your actions and contracts, but also that others will treat you to your ice cream cone." . . .

'When Will The President Himself... Condemn These Hate-Filled Little Gazas?': Tom Cotton    "At a Senate Republican press briefing, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) called out President Biden's silence about the antisemitic campus uprisings."

NEW: Biden Gives Unscheduled Remarks, Delivers Disgusting Response to Pro-Hamas Encampments – RedState   . . .Amidst the largest uptick in antisemitism in probably 75 years, Biden chose to bring up "Islamophobia" and "discrimination against Arab Americans or Palestinians," putting those things on equal footing with the violent calls by those groups for a "global intifada" and a genocide against the Jews.

It's cowardice personified. He just couldn't bring himself to address the actual issue at hand. Instead, he tried to play both sides, something he and other Democrats lambasted Donald Trump for regarding Charlottesville (and Trump didn't actually say what they accused him of). 

Here's a question for the president. Has he seen any "anti-Palestinian" encampments? Has he seen any Jews storming and destroying historic buildings? Have Jewish students been fighting with police and throwing urine on them? Because I haven't seen any of that. "Islamophobia," to the extent it exists at all (and by the numbers, it barely registers), is irrelevant to what has been occurring on these college campuses." . . .

Republicans accuse Biden of putting 'more pressure on Israel' than Hamas amid college riots | Fox News  . . ."Cotton said this wasn't surprising, citing what he said were "antisemitic elements" of the Democratic Party that have been allowed to "fester and grow for years" under Biden's watch. Biden has notably criticized Israel and let disagreements between the country and the U.S. be known publicly as Israel continues to battle the terrorist group Hamas in Gaza." . . . 

"Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said Biden "could stop this stuff on a dime" if he chose, suggesting the president could call universities and threaten their federal funding to motivate them to break up the unruly demonstrations. 

"However, he said, "It just goes to show you that even old people can s--k," in reference to Biden, who is 81 years old. 

"Kennedy also pointed to poor polling for the president, saying that Biden is not taking action because he is "scared to death to alienate the Hamas wing of the Democratic Party." . . .

Ian Macfarlane

BREAKING: ICC Threatening to Issue Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu (and Biden does nothing...) - Caroline Glick   "The International Criminal Court (ICC) is threatening to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Hertzi Halevy for war crimes in Gaza. Is Biden enabling this move? What is the real goal of the ruling and what can Israel do to fight back?

"I give all the details and implications for Israel and the free world." Video

Dazed and Confused: President Biden Lands in Charlotte, Promptly Gets Lost – RedState  . . ."Whoever is propping Joe Biden up is committing elder abuse. Joe Biden was never the sharpest knife in the drawer to being with, but now his decline can no longer be denied. Every day brings another embarrassing example of his decline. There's no way the Democrats can let him go on to the election — not if they hold out any hope at all of retaining their hold on the White House." . . .

I can't even recognize Joe Biden anymore: Sen. Kennedy - YouTube  "Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., blasts President Biden’s response to anti-Israel agitators wreaking havoc on college campuses."

Bidenite lies, statistics, and reality - Jack Hellner   "Most of the media, Joe Biden, his administration, and other Democrats seem to live in an alternate reality.

"We are constantly told that Biden inherited an economic disaster and his great economic policies have turned the economy around—the reality is that he inherited a rapidly growing economy with inflation below two percent, and his policies have decimated the purchasing power of most Americans, resulting in an economic disaster. A huge percentage of Americans are digging into savings, running up credit card debt, and falling behind on their loans, just to pay ordinary bills. Few young people can afford to buy a house in today’s market." . . .

"It is clear that Biden has lived in an alternate reality for a long time: He was very involved in the Civil Rights movement, he grew up in the Puerto Rican community, he went to black churches, he saved many lives while a lifeguard, he was a superior athlete, a brilliant law student, he took trains across a car bridge, he drove an 18-wheeler, and his uncle was eaten by cannibals.

"He is so confused that he believes he has the power to control temperatures, sea levels, and storm activity.

"It is a true shame that most of the media wants Americans to be imprisoned for four more years under this extreme, radical, intentional destruction of America. They also live in a bubble with other people who have an alternate reality. Facts haven’t mattered for a long time."

Fox and the henhouse: Biden’s backward ‘refugee’ policy   . . ."The choice in November should be clear to every reasoning, moral free thinker: choose the candidate who is most likely to safeguard our country, or pick one who will keep selling out our nation to a future global government, on a path of reckless disregard for the well-being of the United States and American citizens.  Let’s choose wisely and keep the foxes out of the henhouse."

Could this be the final nail in the Biden Regime coffin?  "They’ve also asked every Arab Muslim country to take them in and all said NO. It’s the Europeans/Americans who are pushing for a Palestinian state which would steal even more land from Israel. If they love the Palestinians so much, let take them in."

They’ve also asked every Arab Muslim country to take them in and all said NO. It’s the Europeans/Americans who are pushing for a Palestinian state which would steal even more land from Israel. If they love the Palestinians so much, let take them in.

Like with the southern border, Democrats will gladly import voters. Any and all. TD 

Joe Biden, Dearborn Shahid, Commits Political Suicide via Hamas Appeasement  . . ."By acceding to his young and hyper-online campaign staffers who have imbibed the woke catechism and thus view Hamas jihadists as "oppressed" victims of Israeli "oppressors," the president -- or "Dr." Jill Biden, or whoever else controls Uncle Joe -- is setting himself up for failure. By making such a strong play for states like Michigan, Biden is strapping on a political suicide vest and positioning himself to be a Shahid for radicals in Dearborn, Michigan, who will never be appeased and who will continue to protest "genocide Joe" through election day. Meanwhile, Democrats' pampering of an Islamist death cult abroad and failure to crack down on supportive, fifth-column anarchists at home only alienate the vast majority of swing-state voters who are not virulently anti-Israel or antisemitic." . . .

Scarborough: MSNBC viewers ‘too stupid’ to see campus protests helping Trump should ‘change channel’

 The Hill 

“This is not helping the people of Gaza,” he said. “And this is not helping those of us who want to help fight fascism in America.” And what do you refer to as fascism? Those who start this war or those who want to stop those who slaughter men women and children in their homes? TD

"MSNBC host Joe Scarborough warned that the discourse surrounding demonstrations against the war in Gaza across college campuses are helping former President Trump’s election chances.

"Scarborough compared the current protests to those of the anti-war movement in the 1960s.

“ 'I remember my parents asking, what in the world is going on in this country? And of course, you know, they were raised in the Great Depression and rural Georgia,” he said Thursday on “Morning Joe,” adding “Kind of hard for them to hear rich kids on the campus of Harvard are taking over, or taking over campuses at Columbia.”

"The host continued, insisting the outrage the demonstrations are receiving from conservatives in America are helping Trump politically.

“ 'If you’re offended by this, please, I’m trying to help you,” he said. ”I don’t want Donald Trump to get elected. All right? I’m trying to help you. If you’re too stupid to figure that out, you can change to another channel.”

"The host’s comments were first highlighted by Mediaite.

"The demonstrations have broken out in the wake of Israel’s ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands in the region since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack." . . .

Can The Current Universities Be Saved?

 Victor Davis Hanson; American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

Politicized faculty, infantilized students, and mediocre classes have combined to erode the prestige of college degrees, even at once elite colleges.

"Elite higher education in America—long unquestioned as globally preeminent—is facing a perfect storm. Fewer applicants, higher costs, impoverished students, collapsing standards, and increasingly politicized and mediocre faculty reflect a collapse of the university system.

"The country is waking up to the reality that a bachelor’s degree no longer equates with graduates being broadly educated and analytical. Just as often, they are stereotyped as pampered, largely ignorant, and gratuitously opinionated.

"No wonder polls show a drastic loss of public respect for higher education and, specifically, a growing lack of confidence in the professoriate.

"Each year, there are far fewer students entering college. Despite a U.S. population 40 million larger than 20 years ago, fertility rates have fallen in two decades by some 500,000 births per year.

"Meanwhile, from 1980 to 2020, room, board, and tuition increased by 170 percent.

"Skyrocketing costs cannot be explained by inflation alone, given that campuses have lightened faculty teaching loads while expanding administrative staff. At Stanford, there is nearly one staffer or administrative position for every student on campus.

"At the same time, to vie for a shrinking number of students, colleges began offering costly in loco parentis counseling, Club Med-style dorms and accommodations, and extracurricular activities.

"As applicants grew scarcer and expenses went up, universities began offering “full-service” student-aid packages, heavily reliant on government-subsidized student loans. The collective indebtedness of over 40 million student borrowers is nearing $2 trillion.

"Worse still, an entire new array of therapeutic majors and minors appeared in the social sciences. Most of these gender/race/environmental courses did not emphasize analytical, mathematical, or oral and written skills. Such course work did not impress employers.

"Faculty hiring had become increasingly non-meritocratic based on diversity/equity/inclusion criteria. New faculty hires have sought to institutionalize self-serving DEI and recalibrate higher education to prepare a new generation for self-perpetuating radical ideologies.

"At the more elite campuses, racial quotas vastly curtailed the number of Asian and white students. But that racialist social engineering project required dropping the SAT requirement and comparative ranking of high school grade point averages." . . .