Scary Ideas
You know things have come to a head when liberal academics are afraid of their own students. The professoriate may be protected by tenure from firing but not from Title IX lawsuits.
Campus speech codes and government pressure have fostered an atmosphere where students feel they deserve to be protected from scary ideas and facts don’t matter. Not exactly the traditional point of an expensive college education.
Here’s a Chicago Tribune editorial denouncing Northwestern University for its kangaroo court treatment of communications professor Laura Kipnis. And here is Professor Kipnis’s offending article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. On the bright side, David French, in National Review, thinks this could be the beginning of the end of PC culture.
Closest Thing to a Jew
Former Obama administration high priest David Axelrod says the president revealed to him that he’s “the closest thing to a Jew that has ever sat in this office.” It’s hurtful to him when people say he’s hostile to Israel. The president also told a young Asian group this week that he personally restored America to international respectability. And, despite missing state department emails, destroyed IRS emails, and delayed FOIA requests, he continues with the “most transparent administration in history” boast.
Tour de Kerry
John Kerry broke his leg while riding his bike on a Tour de France course. Guess that will keep him out of the Stanley Cup finals. He and his caregivers were transported home for surgery in a huge Air Force C-17.
Prison Press Pass
President Obama is good at getting prisoners released from GITMO but not so much from Iran. While he polishes his nuclear deal, a Washington Post reporter rots in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison. Jason Rezaian has been the Supreme Leader’s guest there since last July.
Rezaian’s trial was yesterday. Secret – like the nuke deal. So far no word on the outcome.
BernieNomics
I got a lesson in BernieNomics yesterday. In an interview with John Harwood, Bernie Sanders recommended a 90% income tax rate and complained that stores stock too much deodorant. It’s the armpit version of clean your plate because children in India are starving.
His views on kids’ sports on the other hand are laissez faire. He favors unsupervised play.
