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Campus watch: Who’s Really Funding Higher Ed?
“The higher-education lobby is trying to block the release of major foreign-donor names,” warns Craig Singleton at The Walls Street Journal. “The administration shouldn’t give in.” Federally funded universities should report massive international presents and contracts, however typically haven’t. Past disclosures revealed presents and contracts value billions, together with $528 million from China in 2025 alone. Other transactions contain entities flagged as national-security threats, additionally largely Chinese. “The Education Department promised to publish ‘the names of all foreign sources from prior reporting cycles.’ Yet it has repeatedly delayed” amid strain from higher-ed teams. Universities obtain “billions in taxpayer support”; publishing names will present “essential context for assessing” their relationships. Team Trump mustn’t “let university lobbyists decide where transparency ends.”
Conservative: Media Minimizes Leftist Violence
The menace of “right-wing violence” as a “greater threat” than violent motion from the left “rests on a dubious premise,” observes City Journal’s John Tierney, derived from “statistics compiled by advocacy groups” that severely reduce left-wing violence. “Mentally-disturbed lone wolves” may be discovered on each side, however “organized violence in pursuit of political goals” is a “recurring strategy” from the left, as a result of “if your main goal is social justice, the moral rules change.” Leftists “have long been willing to overlook or rationalize the mob violence, social upheaval, and ruthless leadership required to impose their vision of the common good.” And when it’s not celebrated, “leftist mob violence tends to be forgotten or blamed on the other side,” because the “Left’s professional activists will always need to find a new demon to rally the troops.”
EU beat: Iceland Rejects the Bullies
After “the Brexit vote in 2016,” standard knowledge mentioned non-member nations would “join to avoid the UK’s ‘mistake,’ ” however “Iceland’s referendum on EU accession on Saturday has now exploded that narrative,” cheers Spiked’s Fraser Myers, as 53% of Icelanders opted “not only to remain outside of the EU, but also against even holding talks on EU membership.” As with Brexit, this got here “as a surprise to European elites.” But why ought to Icelanders imagine “that EU membership would be the best guarantor of Iceland’s security”? These “voters deserve credit” for rejecting Brussels’ makes an attempt to coerce them into “selling out their sovereignty.” Amid a fractious world order, “it has never been more important for nations to retain their independence.”
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From the best: The Dems’ Radical Moderates
“One of the Democratic Party’s most influential ‘moderates’ ” has come out in favor of packing the Supreme Court, fumes National Review’s Noah Rothman: Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC). He performed kingmaker for Joe Biden in 2020 and criticized the police-defunders — however now “the supposed sage of the Democratic Party’s moderate middle” has “surrendered to possibly the most revolutionary position in the Democratic Socialists’ portfolio of competing radicalisms”: packing the Supreme Court with 4 added lefty justices. While “Clyburn hasn’t gone as far as the DSA activists” on the subject of full “contempt for the Constitution,” he’s on that course, as packing the Court “would be functionally indistinguishable from rendering” your complete judicial department moot.
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Policy wonks: Landfills Beat Recycling
“Landfill,” derided because the “worst place our trash can end up,” may very well be “one of the cleanest, cheapest, and most environmentally sensible” locations for our waste,” notice Alex Chalmers and Rob Wiblin at Works in Progress. Once “we account for energy, labor, and other inputs” it seems that single-use plastic used for rubbish luggage “uses almost no energy,” and “the same pattern shows up almost everywhere we have tried to replace disposable goods with durable ones.” Landfill, “envisaged as a rotting mound of waste,” causes “minimal environmental damage” and takes up virtually no space. Instead of “paying more to recycle,” we might be higher off spending money on “environmental mitigation measures like carbon capture.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
