In The Media

Chronicles – New York City mayor and Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani admonished his city’s property owners in a recent X post, saying owners of second homes worth $5 million or more will have to pay a new “pied-à-terre” tax. “Check your mailbox when you’re back in the five boroughs—because you’ve got mail,” he wrote. The “mail” to

Chronicles  – “Will we remain a party of conservative beliefs, or will we follow the siren song of populism?” asked former Vice President Mike Pence in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed adapted from his dud of a new book, What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience. One could easily wonder what conservatives have to learn

Chronicles – Christopher Nolan’s Long, Woke Voyage to Nowhere The Odyssey (2026)  Directed by Christopher Nolan ◆ Screenplay adaptation by Christopher Nolan ◆ Produced by Universal Pictures and Syncopy ◆ Distributed by Universal Pictures. “Hahaha. Very proud to say we got the Odyssey removed from the curriculum this year!” Lawrence, Massachusetts, high school teacher Heather Levine

Throughout the 16 years of former Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s second premiership, which lasted from 2010 until his Fidesz Party’s devastating defeat in April, liberals on both sides of the Atlantic derided his government as “authoritarian” and even “autocratic.” In the end, however, it proved neither “authoritarian” nor “autocratic” enough to avoid losing, in what

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside,” states the Fourteenth Amendment. But are those whose parents are here temporarily as tourists or illegally because they have snuck across the border or overstayed a visa really

“Versailles is the real deal,” said President Trump when his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron invited him to dinner at the royal palace during this month’s G-7 conference. G-7 leaders praised the US’ latest agreement with Iran as a “breakthrough,” but if anyone thinks the Trump-touted “deal” Vice President Vance negotiated with Iran is “real,” they should

City Journal – More university administrations are refusing to cave to student activists’ demands to cancel commencement speakers. “We are living through a period of extreme narcissism,” comedian and late-night talk show host Conan O’Brien told Harvard University graduates assembled for his commencement address on May 28. O’Brien, a Harvard alumnus, used his platform to poke fun

Chronicles – “The University of Florida should not hire Stuart Bell as president,” warned the Manhattan Institute’s director for higher education policy, John Sailer, in a recent op-ed for the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. Sailer, who last month broke the story of Bell’s unanimous nomination by UF’s presidential search committee as its only choice for the

New York Post – “Safe to Pee.” That was just one wacky woke initiative Stuart R. Bell oversaw as president of the University of Alabama, in this case to prevent “discrimination against gender variant people in public restrooms.” Earlier this month, a search committee at the University of Florida—the flagship institution of the state where Gov.

Chronicles – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis famously described his state as the place “Where woke goes to die.” When it comes to the presidency of Florida’s flagship public university, however, it could end up being the place where woke goes to lead. Following last year’s widely reported and humiliating rejection of former University of Michigan president

Chronicles – Putting a committee of faculty in charge of determining what has gone wrong in American higher education was like putting a team of drug dealers in charge of determining how best to enforce the nation’s drug laws. In case anyone missed it, higher education in America is in crisis. In 2010, according to Gallup,

Tablet – Elise Stefanik’s sharp questioning revealed that America’s most prestigious universities were rotten to the core. Did it make a difference? It depends on the context,” was former Harvard University president Claudine Gay’s catastrophically tone-deaf response when New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik asked her in a televised congressional hearing if calling for the genocide of