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It’s UCLA’s Turn in the Hot Seat: Chancellor to Appear before Congress Thursday AM

May 22, 2024 3:15 pmMay 22, 2024 3:15 pm

The past couple of months have been a rather trying time for UCLA Chancellor Gene Block. And it won’t get any better Thursday. Block has been called to testify by the House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce...

Congress Probing Berkeley Over Anti-Semitism

March 19, 2024 4:17 pmMarch 19, 2024 4:17 pm

You can now add the University of California, Berkeley to the list of high profile, high powered universities that are being investigated by Congress over how they have reacted to the wave of antisemitism that has roiled campuses since the...

Opinion: Too Left, Even for Me

January 22, 2024 11:21 amJanuary 22, 2024 11:55 am

If you have kept up with the flurry of news articles coming in from the East Coast, you know that the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT were under extreme pressure recently from disgruntled donors, the communities, and Congress to...

Free Speech is the Cure and Not the Cause of Antisemitism

December 15, 2023 9:41 amDecember 15, 2023 9:44 am

When the Presidents of MIT, Harvard and University of Pennsylvania were invited to denounce open race-hatred on their campuses, they wrapped themselves in the mantle of free speech. People have a right to say what they think as long as...

Upholding Standards, Not Labels

December 14, 2023 10:33 am

Can we excuse evil, terror, and barbarianism with context-dependent ambiguity? The far-left ideology of anti-oppression, anti-colonialism, and neo-Marxism, an illiberal dogma predicated on crude racial lines, ignorant of history and facts, and deriving from the decadent, “everything-goes” postmodernism, seems to...

Gain of Function Has Never Worked

April 23, 2023 2:30 amApril 24, 2023 6:56 am

Prior to the pandemic, the term “gain of function research” was rarely heard outside the confines of a laboratory or a government bureaucrat’s office. COVID changed all that and the term, its GOF abbreviation, and the debate over its implications...

Stanford/MIT Study: Keeping Diablo Nuclear Plant Open Would Save Billions, Help Meet Emissions Goals

November 9, 2021 11:49 amApril 3, 2022 8:16 am

A new Stanford University/Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study released on Monday found that an extending the life of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant past it’s planned 2025 closure date would help the state greatly reduce carbon emissions and meet...