Claudine Gay, who resigned yesterday as Harvard’s president, could have gone out with a touch of class. She could have shown a hint of remorse for her serial plagiarism (50 documented cases) and her catastrophic performance testifying before Congress – both of which disgraced herself and Harvard.
But there was no apology for – and we’re giving her the benefit of the doubt here – her pattern of academic carelessness and her impolitic antisemitic remarks. Everyone makes mistakes.
Instead, she voiced no regrets. Instead, she pitifully opted to play the race card, as is an all-too predictable reflex of progressives when they get trapped. She writes in her self-congratulatory resignation letter that “it has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor…and frightening to be subject to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus.”
Huh? Her “commitment to upholding scholarly rigor”? REALLY? Is she expecting an apology letter from those who exposed her addiction to scholarly fraud?
In some ways, we’re actually sorry to see Claudine step down. She and Harvard deserve each other.
One of the themes of the HOTLINE is to warn readers that the left is slowly taking over the cultural and professional institutions of America – schools, universities, the media, churches, and Hollywood. Yesterday, we pointed to a study from The American Journalist at Syracuse University, that found just 3.4% of American journalists described themselves as Republican in 2022.
HOTLINE readers have now directed us to other studies showing that yawning imbalance is pervasive in other professions as well. Among academics, only 6% are Republican. Even engineers now trend Democratic.
Physicians, who had a firm Republican tilt as recently as 2004, now give 90% of their donations to Democrats (which helps explain why so much of COVID policy became "get Trump").
Americans with a graduate degree have seen the most tilt towards the Left. Part of the explanation is that radical elements have spent billions in foundation money to influence the thoughts of those with advanced degrees.
Caution: most of this analysis goes through 2018. But does anyone think things have gotten better in academia or the professions since then?
Here is another data source that confirms the states people are going to and escaping from, that we showed in Census data last week.
U-Haul's list is compiled from over two million one-way rentals and ranks states by the ratio of inbound to outbound rentals. Texas edged out Florida for the top spot again this year, while California took last place for the fourth year in a row.
It can now cost four to 10 times more to rent a U-Haul in a blue state like California to move to a red state like Utah than to make the opposite move. This is to reimburse the U-Haul companies for the cost of having to pay a driver to get the vans and trucks back to the blue states to accommodate the next batch of exiles.
4) Enviro Group Is Training Judges in "Climate Justice"
As if left-wing judges needed any help issuing outlandish global warming rulings, the left is now “training” judges on the effects of climate change. But this program sounds a lot more like indoctrination, not education:
The Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Law Institute (ELI) created the Climate Judiciary Project (CJP) in 2018... the project has crafted 13 curriculum modules and hosted 42 events while more than 1,700 judges have participated in its activities. And multiple judges serve as advisers at CJP, potentially having an impact on its curriculum and modules...
"The only factor that can clearly explain the rising temperatures of the two centuries is the increasing level of atmospheric greenhouse gases, modulated by land cover change and increases in atmospheric aerosols (pollutants) from human activities," one of the modules states.
Another module is dedicated to discussing "climate justice," which states that low-income communities have historically been exposed to more environmental harms like "elevated exposure to heat, flooding, vehicular traffic, hazardous materials and pollutants, decaying civic infrastructure, poverty, and crime."
5) Boston Mayor Declares the Entire World Has a Right To Come to U.S.
We’re strongly in favor of an immigration system that allows many more talented and hard-working immigrants to come to the United States. But EVERYONE? In the whole world? With virtually no border enforcement whatsoever? That’s a lot of voters the Democrats are recruiting.
This mindset explains why progressives are demanding President Biden refuse any changes in asylum law to stem the tide of migrants on the Mexican border.
If you think we are exaggerating, listen to Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, who spoke for many on the Left when she declared this week that "Every human being has the legal right to come to the United States and seek asylum or shelter." Watch her statement for yourself.
As a matter of law, she’s plainly wrong. International law holds that someone must seek asylum in the first safe country visited by the asylum seeker. Moreover, to claim asylum or refugee status they have to document a “well-founded fear of persecution.” Perhaps Mayor Wu is admitting that socialism is a form of mass persecution.
Wu, by the way, is the same mayor who holds a yearly Christmas party that specifically excludes white people in favor of “persons of color.”
