650+ Harvard professors have signed a letter to the Harvard Corporation in support of President Claudine Gay.
@Harvard
is now in crisis.
The Harvard Board is now stuck between a rock & a hard place: if they fire Gay (also now accused of plagiarism) the faculty will be in
It's July 4th. I repeat it's July 4th.
Just went into
@Walgreens
pharmacy. Noticed that they had no American flags on display, although they did have other flags on display above the cash registers. I asked politely if they had any American flags on display anywhere in the
🚨 Breaking!
The # of Harvard faculty signing a letter supporting President Gay has risen to 726. The vast majority are from the humanities & social sciences, which shape the soul of any university.
🧵I have obtained a copy of the faculty letter, which appears below.
@elonmusk
I'm sorry,
@BillAckman
, but
@Harvard
cannot be saved. Firing Gay will change nothing. The rot is too deep. The Corporation, administration, and faculty are dominated by ideologues & a cult of mediocrity. Harvard is now a profoundly unserious institution. Its reputation is shot.
I have heard from a source that is reliable but a step or two removed from the situation that the
@Harvard
Corporation has asked President Gay to resign and she has refused.
Gay has apparently said that if she is fired, she will sue. Gay has retained her own counsel.
I can’t
🚨BREAKING. New
@Harvard
policy on plagiarism:
The word "plagiarism" shall be dropped from the Harvard lexicon. So-called "plagiarism" is an outdated concept created by the white, male, cis patriarchy to reinforce colonialist power structures of discrimination & oppression.
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Harvard receives over $1BILLION a year in state & federal funding, which means TAXPAYER $$$.
I do not support raiding the Harvard endowment, but I do say:
#DefundHarvard
. No more taxpayer $.
What say you,
@elonmusk
&
@BillAckman
?
2 questions for
@Harvard
;
@Harvard_History
:
1. Are your students permitted to "correct" plagiarized work?
2. What is the punishment, if any, for a Harvard student who plagiarizes Claudine Gay's plagiarized articles or dissertation?
The questions no one wants to ask:
1. Why are so many of America's teenage boys full of nihilistic rage?
2. Why are they alienated from the most basic moral norms?
3. Why do they lack a moral fail-safe to check their seething impulse to kill indiscriminately?
"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality."--H. L. Mencken
Liberals think the solution to school shootings is to ban guns. Conservatives think the solution to school shootings is to arm teachers.
None of them wants to ask the real question: WHY are America's teenage boys targeting schools for mass murder?
Pro Tip for Republicans:
When you speak about Biden's college "loan" bailout, you must speak of it first and foremost in moral terms and only secondarily in economic terms. Otherwise, you lose.
From the perspective of the individual, does it really matter if your rights are being violated by federal, state, county, city, or village governments? It's not the level of government that matters, it's the fact that your rights have been violated.
"Progressive Education and Our Killing Schools." This is the 2nd essay of the series and it's the important.
It's on the philosophic origins of America's school shootings.
The resignation of Claudine Gay will do nothing to change the intellectual corruption & moral rot
@Harvard
.
I predict Harvard will be worse in 5 years than it is today. Mark my words.
#defundHarvard
A new version of the trolley car problem. Consider the following hypothetical scenario.
A woman with a dying child in her car has been prevented from driving her child to the hospital by Just Stop Oil. After frantically explaining her situation to the protestors, they still
Would u support a taxpayer-funded & government-run newspaper that all adult Americans would be forced to read?
If your answer is "no," then why do you permit the government to mandate what children read?
Three cheers for
@EliseStefanik
! Her questioning of the presidents of MIT, Penn, and Harvard demonstrates what moral clarity looks like, and it also demonstrates the moral bankruptcy of those who run America's so-called "Ivy League" institutions.
#DefundHarvard
The presidents of
@Harvard
,
@MIT
, and
@Penn
were all asked the following question under oath at today’s congressional hearing on antisemitism:
Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?
The
Let's be clear about what's happening at Columbia, Yale, Harvard, etc. These anti-Israel, pro-Hamas demonstrations have been inspired by the ideas students learn from their professors.
We welcome Jewish students in the Lyceum Program @ Clemson.
Here is the reality
@Harvard
& other so-called "Ivy League" universities.
1. Does calling for the genocide of Black Americans violate Harvard's code of conduct when it comes to bullying & harassment? Answer: Yes.
2. Does calling for the genocide of LGBTQ+ Americans violate
Au contraire! There are words, many words in fact to describe what's happened in Gaza. Let's start with these words: you are a morally bankrupt organization that employed many Hamas supporters & terrorists, which means u share moral responsibility for what has happened in Gaza. I
Important thread from
@ConceptualJames
. The problem described here was first explained in Ayn Rand's novel, Atlas Shrugged. For those of you who have read the novel, think of the train tunnel disaster. It's pretty much as Lindsay describes it here as applied to air travel.
I'm all about using what's going on at the airlines to crush DEI, and it's 100% true that DEI at the airlines is a disaster in the making. We all see that competence only should dictate employment in such an inherently dangerous environment where innocent lives are at stake. BUT!
The death of civilization is NOT that this "person" did this, but the fact that not a single person stopped her and that she will suffer no meaningful consequences for her vandalism (in the original meaning of the word).
Masked Palestinian activist completly DESTROYS historic British painting by slashing it with a knife and spray painting it.
The activist from the Palestine Action group ruined the Lord Balfour painting in Trinity College, University of Cambridge using a box cutter Stanley knife
I think it's time to recognize that this idea as expressed in Milei's speech--that socialism is "motivated by some well-meaning individuals"-- is false and is the Achilles heel of the Right.
NEW: President of Argentina Javier Milei demolishes socialism in front of a bunch of socialists at the World Economic Forum.
🔥🔥🔥
“I'm here to tell you that the western world is in danger and it is endangered because those who are supposed to have to defend the values of the
Do you believe it now? If you are a university administrator, professor, or student who supports Hamas and their Gazan supporters, you are supporting genocide! There is no escaping this conclusion.
#ShameOnYou
Here’s Hamas, in their own words, telling you they will repeat the October 7 massacre a million times over until all of israel is destroyed. This is why calls for a cease fire are not just misguided— they are cruel.
Let's make 2 things absolutely clear:
1. Hamas is morally responsible for the deaths of all Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
2. If Hamas cared about the Palestinian people, it would unconditionally surrender immediately.
Today we lost out little boy "Curdie." We got him at 12 weeks old and he passed today at almost 16. As a homeschooling family, he was with all of us every day, all day. He went wherever we went. He was always with us. And now he's with us in love and memory.
R.I.P. Curdie
The so-called "Ivy League" has become a 🤡 show. It's in a state of reputational deflation.
Ordinary people are no longer impressed with the degree. The "I went to the Harvard, Brown, Yale, etc." line is now yawn-inducing .🥱
1. I am an immigrant to the USA.
2. I have lived in the U.S. since 1979
3. On July 14, 2020, I became a U.S. citizen
4. Today I voted for the first time in my life
5. I'm no longer a citizen of the world
6. I'm a true-blue American citizen now!
7. I hope it's not too late
A few lunchtime thoughts:
Freedom over feelings.
Truth over lies.
Logic over emotions.
Justice over diversity
Merit over equity.
Independence over inclusion.
Lunch is over. Back to work.
A new semester begins. I will be teaching a course titled "Wisdom of the Moderns." Readings include:
Albert Camus, "The Crisis of Man"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlett Letter
Herman Melville, Billy Budd
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
America's government schools are a total failure. They do not educate. They cannot be reformed. The only thing they do well is Friday Night Football, and that's not a reason to keep them.
#JustWalkAway
#BeAnAbolitionist
I'm not a religious man, but Matthew 8:36 ("For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?") seems apt when considering Novak Djokovic's principles & actions when he was banned by authoritarian governments from playing 🎾 on the world
Novak Djokovic is the GOAT on and off the court.
History will not be kind to Australia for what our tyrannical government did to him in the name of ‘public health’.
America's Education Deep State (i.e., federal & state departments of education, teachers’ unions, “ed” schools, school boards, accrediting agencies, curriculum designers, textbook publishers, D-E-I consultants etc.) has gone all in for CRT.
The eyes of America are on GMU President Gregory Washington
@GMUPres
to do the right thing: publicly condemn those GMU faculty, staff, and students who support genocide.
I support this letter written by David Bernstein & signed by 16 of his colleagues at the Scalia Law School.
True moral virtue begins with a free, rational judgment of what is right and wrong and then acting on that judgment. . . . Common-good morality is for the weak and lazy; it is for those who want to be told by Harvard social planners how, when, and where to be good and just.
Pass
Ladies & gentlemen (especially
@CliffordAsness
&
@BillAckman
): May I present a product of the Ivy League. To be clear: this is NOT a form of mental illness. This is a form of consciously chosen moral evil that is being taught to America's young people by their professors.
A student from UPenn is seen speaking fondly about the “joyful” images of butchered Israelis from the “glorious October 7th.”
She felt “happy” upon hearing the news of dead Jews in Israel.
In what appears to be a call for violence, she tells the crowd to “hold that feeling in
Are you willing to refer to them now as GOVERNMENT schools? Never--ever--refer to them as "public" schools. They are, if anything, anti-public schools. They are run by and for the government.
🧵The end game of gender ideology is giving government power to remove children from their parents. The ultimate price for wrong think.
The federal government has already published documents labeling parents who don’t ‘affirm’ as potentially abusive.
American Higher Ed is imploding.
Here's the antidote: The Lyceum Program @ Clemson U. uses a "Great Books" approach to studying the history of liberty, capitalism, the American Founding, & moral character. Check it out
@elonmusk
@BillAckman
@JTLonsdale
Now that the junior league members of the ruling elite fear reputational damage & that they may not get jobs to rule the plebeians, they're scurrying like the cowards they are.
And Larry
@LHSummers
, c'mon get real. We'll take your outrage more seriously if you publicly admit
I yield to no one in my revulsion at the statement apparently made on behalf of 30 plus
@Harvard
student groups. But please everybody take a deep breath. Many in these groups never saw the statement before it went out. In some case those approving did not understand exactly
Mrs. Thatcher's statement sums up perfectly the story told in my book, America's Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration that Defined It
🚨The government school system cannot be reformed. This ideology 👇 is baked into the system.
If you are Republican & support the government schools, know this: u are hurting children & u are destroying America.
#Shameful
If u ❤️ your kids, the choice is clear:
#JustWalkAway
This comrade who is studying to become a teacher says that a revolution is ready to happen in America. She provides a lengthy to-do list for the revolution. On that list is daycare and historians, “who can help us understand what has happened and what's going to happen.”
The Left did its "long march through the institutions."
We shall do our "long march from the institutions."
Join the new "Walk Away" movement.
And we shall start by walking away from the government schools.
The march away starts this week.
Announcement coming soon . . .
"Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York suggested in a recent social media post that most people 'don't really know what capitalism is.'"
Here's a definition. What say you, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
@RepAOC
Given what's been happening on America's college campuses recently, I thought y'all might like to see my "Open Letter to Clemson Students." Jewish students looking for a non-antisemitic school should consider applying to the Lyceum Scholars program at Clemson.
🚨This is where we are, ladies & gentlemen, and it's not just
@elonmusk
that they'll be going after. You're next. These people are not messing around. They want you to obey, and they mean it.
Australian Senator Jacqui Lambie says Elon Musk needs to be jailed because he’s allowing too much free speech on X.
“Quite frankly the bloke should be jailed, and the sooner we can bring laws in and do something about this game playing with our social media the better off we’re