Harvard serving as a ‘safety’ school for embattled president Claudine Gay
So now it’s one president down, no more to go. The decision by Harvard pooh-bahs to keep Claudine Gay was predictable but still disappointing. It sucks some of the air…
Firing Ivy League presidents should only be the beginning
The hypocrisy and moral imbecility of the three Ivy League presidents before Congress last week points to two deeper problems of university leadership today: First, college administrations are terrified of…
Harvard, MIT presidents face increased calls to ‘do the right thing’ after UPenn’s Magill resigned over response to antisemitism
Former University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill’s resignation has been met with celebration — and calls for the heads of Harvard and MIT to also resign over their failures to…
Make the line shines brighter this Hanukkah
There’s a photograph that circulates around Jewish pockets of the internet each year during Hanukkah. It was taken in Germany in 1930, and it shows an elegant menorah sitting in…
Liz Magill’s UPenn resignation is the first step in ridding campuses of antisemitism
Now that Liz Magill is about to become the former president of the University of Pennsylvania, the only sensible reaction is to hope she is the first of many college…
University Of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill Quits Amid Backlash Over Campus Anti-Semitism
Seventy-four lawmakers had demanded the removal of the three university presidents. (File) Washington: The president of an Ivy League university stepped down Saturday in the wake of a firestorm of…
Campus antisemitism was predictable — and a top-school degree may soon be worthless
After Oct. 7, the public was shocked at what it saw and heard on America’s campuses. Americans knew previously they were intolerant, leftwing and increasingly non-meritocratic. But immediately after Oct.…
White House’s team-up with CAIR is over, and that’s good
After the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ chief was outed as praising Hamas’ Oct. 7 atrocities, the White House this week quietly cut CAIR from its “strategy” on fighting antisemitism. But…
Hedge fund titan pushes to claw back $100M UPenn gift as pressure mounts to dump Liz Magill
A Wall Street tycoon Thursday vowed to claw back a $100 million donation to the University of Pennsylvania if the Ivy League school doesn’t boot UPenn President Liz Magill following…
Ivy League alums must keep up the fight against on-campus antisemitism
Top donors pulling their funding over antisemitism on campus have spooked elite schools. Good. Keep it up. Ivy League universities are lowering their threshold for donations that can get a…