Rip-off: Columbia University is permitting campus radicals to occupy the school, harass Jewish students, and shut down classes. Yet it receives almost half a billion dollars in taxpayer money every year. Other schools that receive federal funding are also letting radicals take control.  

• Senior Research Fellow Jay Greene argues that these radicals are “getting away with this disruption because cowardly administrators are catering to them, and they’re doing that because these are entitled rich kids whose families don’t want any trouble from the university.” 
• It’s time to stop forgiving student loans, defund these rich universities, and stand up to these spoiled bullies on campus, said Greene, a former distinguished professor at the University of Arkansas who has been studying campus radicalism. See more here.

Eyewitnesses: The Daily Signal published first-hand accounts of anti-Israel protests at New York University, UPenn, and George Washington University where, in addition to anti-Jewish slogans, students shouted things like “there’s only one solution, intifada revolution” and tried to block our reporters from filming.

Saving the West: Former Prime Minister of Britain Liz Truss spoke at The Heritage Foundation, where she argued that conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic need to rally the troops to retake the West from the global elites. 

• “I have learned that we are facing really quite challenging forces of the global Left,” said Truss.  
• “And that leads me to believe that what conservatives need is what I describe as a bigger bazooka.” 

Read more here. 

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Waste: The Biden administration has used executive orders, regulatory actions, and grants to steer vast amounts of taxpayer funds to radical leftist causes. 

• David Ditch, senior policy analyst at the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, digs into the data and provides a detailed accounting.  
• Ditch lays out eight steps that Congress must take to rein in such abuses once and for all. 

Read the report here. 

Nuptial bliss: The story of our modern culture is the story of the disintegration of the family. And the crux of this problem is the rise of “marriagelessness.” 

• “The contemporary retreat from marriage can be seen as a direct result of the liberalization of divorce,” writes Catherine Pakaluk, former visiting fellow at Heritage’s Simon Center.  
• “Conservatives must … find a path toward making marriage binding again.” 

Read more here. 

Obscene: Last Wednesday, The Daily Signal ran an exclusive about the performance of a well-known drag queen musical— “Kinky Boots” —planned at a Virginia high school.  

• Parents sent a letter to the school complaining about the show, which promised “strong language and mature content” but had no age or parental consent requirement to attend. 
• The day after The Daily Signal piece ran, the school canceled the first performance. No reason was given. 

Read more here. 

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Why: People are policy. The conservative movement must build next-generation leadership in order to turn conservative policy ideas into reality. 

Who: Heritage is hiring more than 50 interns for positions across the enterprise this fall. Interns are paid $15 an hour.  

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• Deeds Done in the Dark: Leftist Lawyers Caught Engaging in Attorney Misconduct—Hans von Spakovsky and Sarah Parshall Perry 
• The CCP Is Watching You—Mandy Snodgrass  
• 10 GOP Senators Flip-Flop to Support Ukraine Aid—Rob Bluey  
• Newsom’s Energy Experiment Goes Awry—Miles Pollard and Hope Canlas 
• The Next GOP President Should Defund Woke Public Broadcasting—Mike Gonzalez 
• Liz Truss Gave the People What They Wanted and Was Punished—EJ Antoni 
• The Next Generation of Marxists Is Marching Through the Institutions—Mike Gonzalez and Katharine Gorka 
• Under-Regulated and Unaccountable—Emma Waters 
• Is Joe Biden on the Side of Iran or Israel?—Nile Gardiner, Ph.D. 
• Nippon Acquisition of U.S. Steel—Joel Griffith 
• The WHO Pandemic Treaty Fails Again—Brett Schaefer and Steven Groves

Executive Vice President Derrick Morgan appeared on Fox Business to discuss the perils of President Biden’s attempt to force car buyers into costly and unreliable electric cars, and why his plan must be stopped. Watch the clip here.