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Daily Briefing: ARE AMERICA’S ELITE UNIVERSITIES “HOPELESSLY WOKE”?

   THE ANTISEMITISM LURKING BEHIND BDS

Boston BDS Map of Jewish Groups Has ‘Potential to Incite Violence,’ Auchincloss Says:  Marc  Rod, Jewish Insider, June 9, 2022 Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) said on Wednesday that a report released last week by a Boston-area Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement group plays on millennia-old antisemitic tropes and could inflame violence against the Jewish community.

When ‘Racial Justice’ Means Antisemitism: The Takeover of Yale’s Postdoctoral Association:  Evan D. Morris, United With Israel, July 10, 2022  In August of 2021, when most newly-arrived postdoctoral fellows at Yale were busy settling into new apartments and new labs, the “Racial Justice Subcommittee” of the Yale Postdoctoral Association (YPA) published a “Resource on Palestine” on the YPA website, which is an official platform of Yale University.


Why I’m Giving Up Tenure at UCLA:  Joseph Manson, Common Sense with Bari Weiss, July 7, 2022

How Millennials Became Aggressively Illiberal, Censorious Young Adults: George F. Will, Washington Post, July 8, 2022

The New Founders America Needs Bari Weiss, Common Sense with Bari Weiss, July 10, 2022

Why Inflating Grades for Black and Hispanic Kids Eventually Destroys Entire School Systems:  Auguste Meyrat, The Federalist, June 7, 2022


 

For Further Reference:

Biden Renews Obama’s Attack on Campus Due Process;  Joe Cohen, WSJ, June 23, 2022 — Judge José Cabranes of the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals fired off a blistering critique of how colleges and universities adjudicated sexual-misconduct allegations during the Obama administration.
 
Is Twitter-Famous Princeton Historian Kevin Kruse a Plagiarist?:  Phillip W. Magness, Reason, June 14, 2022 — When former Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke intimated in early 2017 that he would be joining Donald Trump’s nascent administration, CNN obtained a copy of Clarke’s master’s thesis from the Naval Postgraduate School and revealed that Clarke had copied blocks of text from other sources. 
 
EXCLUSIVE: Rubio Questions Harvard on Fauci-China Cover-up:  Ashley Rindsberg, The Spectator, June 15, 2022 — Senator Marco Rubio today sent a strongly worded letter to Harvard president Lawrence Bacow expressing concerns prompted by a Spectator magazine investigation by this reporter that Harvard may be “actively supporting [America’s] principal adversary,” the Chinese Communist Party.
 
Graduation Week with Common Sense:  Bari Weiss, Common Sense with Bari Weiss, May 23, 2022 — There is no more reliable cliché in the news business than “if it bleeds it leads.” 
 
In Miami, A Selective New Jewish School Hopes to Attract Top Students:  Andrew Lapin, JTA, Feb. 22, 2022 —   A brand-new, $50 million campus. A month in Israel every year. And a program to help students turn their social-service ideas into fully fledged nonprofits.
 
Insights into Yale’s Woke School of Mismanagement:  Carrie Sheffield, NY Post, June 10, 2022 — Anyone wondering why execs and upper-level bureaucrats in government and at nonprofits are so hopelessly woke these days need look no further than Yale’s School of Management, its MBA-granting business school.

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