None of the "Christians" who attack and/or mock Harmeet are doing the Lord any favors. Do you think this is how we can reach out to people who believe differently from us? We end each mass with "Glorify the Lord by your life" or "announce the Gospel of the Lord." Do that.

If you think woke is dead, think again. "“ . . . . Anyone who feels unsafe because a nineteenth-century opera does not conform to his worldview has fallen deep into the abyss of narcissism and hysteria. And anyone who capitulates to such narcissism belongs nowhere near music or art.”

My husband watched me pray in our Sikh faith at the RNC — and one of our last text messages before he died a couple of weeks later was telling me he was so proud of me. He was supposed to be there, but he was also dying from two serious illnesses, and he could not make it at the last minute. Our medical staff at home took care of him while he watched me pray in our faith tradition -/ just as we did at home daily over each meal. All you trash who have denigrated my prayer to the ONE GOD many faiths believe in, deeply hurt me for the last two years, but I could not comment back because I was part of a campaign and then confirmation -/ administration. It’s over. I won’t be silent any longer. Go read the First Amendment and my extensive record on behalf of ALL people of faith in America. For 34 years. And then let’s measure our respective records on religious liberty. I welcome all comers who think they can prove they did more than I did for ALL people of faith in this country. There are none. I intend to keep fighting for ALL people of faith in America for the rest of my life. But I won’t hide my own faith for one second. It’s protected by our Constitution.

As my colleague @danielgolliher observes, one-party rule has turned New York into a playground for special interests, and taxes keep going up while services stagnate (or decay). A rebuilt state GOP that puts New York first—focused on growth, affordability, livability, competence, and moral character—is crucial for the future of the state and city alike.

Boston Symphony CEO Chad Smith said the orchestra, which recently parted ways with its brilliant and popular conductor Andris Nelsons, must serve communities “more expansively and inclusively” and think differently about “whose voices get to be heard, whose stories get to be told.” In her latest essay, @HMDatMI rejects that woke conceit with characteristic ferocity. “If a listener needs to see himself ‘reflected,’ it would be more efficient to take a selfie than to attend a performance of a Mozart piano concerto,” she writes. One listens to Mozart “to lose oneself in a bygone world of grandeur and beauty.” Down with phony inclusivity, she argues—and up with transcendent art.

In the latest installment of the Jane Doe rape extravaganza, the Cornell Faculty Senate on Friday censured the school administration for its inability to “address the ongoing crisis of sexual assault at Cornell University.” The vote was preceded by group letters to the campus newspaper from female faculty, who congratulated themselves on their bravery in standing up to a “repressive, misogynistic culture” and for refusing to be “silenced”—as if anyone would dare essay such a humanitarian act. According to another female faculty letter, the administration had failed to place student “safety” front and center. Cornell’s brave sisters would never dream of fighting for measures that actually would advance female safety, however—above all, for the long-term confinement and incarceration of criminals and the mentally ill. On October 30, 28-year-old Katie Suarez was fatally stabbed in the neck while running on the Brooklyn, NY, waterfront. Her alleged killer, Sayed Mohassib, a public-school paraprofessional (a fancy term for someone who is otherwise unemployable), had threatened in 2024 to chop up his mother and sister. In 2023, police took Mohassib to Bellevue Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation in light of his erratic behavior and disheveled appearance. Suarez’s murder followed a string of gruesome assaults on females by mentally ill criminals who are released back to the streets again and again. Iryna Zarutska was fatally stabbed in the neck on a Charlotte subway by longtime felon and schizophrenic Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr. in August 2025, and Bethany MaGee was doused with gasoline and set on fire in the Chicago subway in November 2025 by Lawrence Reed, a mentally ill arsonist with 72 prior arrests, to name just a few of such overdetermined attacks. Females are not the only victims of these known criminal risks, of course; males have been pushed into onrushing subways and bludgeoned to death by equally predictable killers-in-waiting. But don’t expect Doe’s feminist avengers to say a peep in favor of stricter incarceration and institutionalization policies, since doing so would have a disparate impact on minority criminals and schizophrenics, above all, on blacks. Avoiding disparate impact has been the guiding principle of the criminal justice system for decades, and it has resulted in foreseeable and thus preventable tragedies. Katie Suarez, Iryna Zarutska, and Bethany MaGee had no way to protect themselves; they relied on government authorities to fulfill their paramount duty of protecting public safety. Jane Doe, by contrast, had numerous opportunities to avoid what is being called her group rape by exercising basic common sense and personal responsibility. Progressives infantilize a certain category of females and treat them as victims of rape culture, while ignoring actual victims who had and will have the misfortune of being targeted by the wrong sort of attacker. Speaking up about the latter travesty would take, in the current political climate, a certain degree of bravery, something that our academic feminists only pretend to possess.

As @DavidSacks warns, Democrats would likely use a federal AI department to approve frontier models—and treat “disinformation” and “dissonant thought” etc as harms that would need to be removed before that approval was given. This would be the COVID censorship playbook, turbocharged by superintelligence.

In an interview, Michel Houellebecq on modern leftism, to put things into perspective: In 2012, 18% of European 15-year-olds lacked basic reading proficiency. By 2025, that figure had climbed to 31.3%.

I am a professor at the @UofCalifornia. I am appalled by the conduct of one of its Regents, Scott Galloway, appointed in August by Governor Newsom. @profgalloway is one of only 26 voting Regents entrusted with governing a university system serving hundreds of thousands of students & employing tens of thousands of faculty & staff. Twice, first on a live Pivot episode featuring Hillary Clinton & on Prof G with Fareed Zakaria, Galloway called Elon Musk a “traitor to the West.” He invoked Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed for espionage, and declared that Musk should be held to the same standards. He didn’t explicitly demand Musk’s execution. But invoking the deaths of two convicted spies while calling an American citizen a traitor makes the implication hard to miss. Musk has not been convicted of treason. Indeed, “treason against the West” isn’t even an actual crime. Now imagine UCLA alumnus @BenShapiro, appointed a UC Regent, saying the same about George Soros. Would the Governor defend his right to serve? Would Regent leadership shrug and call it provocative commentary? Or would there be demands for resignation? But there’s something worse here than another of Scott’s trademark podcast rants. He sits on the Regents’ Academic & Student Affairs Committee. The committee’s charter says it oversees student conduct, faculty conduct, academic personnel, & campus climate, among other responsibilities. This is not some honorary title. The Board sets university policy, controls institutional budgets, & appoints senior university leadership. You can unsubscribe from a podcast. A student who finds Scott’s comments morally repugnant can’t unsub from the Regents. UC bylaws require Regents to serve the public trust with a “high degree of ethics and candor,” including as private citizens. Professors owe students intellectual integrity. Regents bear an even greater duty: they govern institutions that teach it. Yet a Regent serving on the committee responsible for student & faculty conduct invokes executions while labeling a fellow citizen a traitor. What does that say to our students? That intellectual restraint is expected of the governed but optional for those who govern? That standards of conduct depend on whether the target of your rhetoric is politically fashionable to despise, as long as the audience applauds? This isn’t about defending @ElonMusk. He needs no defense from me. Nor is it about silencing Scott. As if that were possible. He’s free to express his opinions, however reckless they may be. But freedom of speech is not freedom from accountability, and holding a university office of public trust is not an entitlement. There is an enormous moral chasm between exercising your right to speak recklessly and demonstrating the judgment required of one of the 26 people who govern our great public university. The UC Board of Regents isnt a podcast sponsors can boycott. It’s a public trust. One final irony. At @NYUStern, Galloway teaches Brand Strategy, including a session on crisis management. His own prescription for leadership in a crisis is unequivocal: acknowledge the problem, have leadership take responsibility, and “overcorrect.” He’s praised the departure of corporate leaders as evidence of effective crisis management. Now Galloway himself sits on the UC Board of Regents. Will he hold himself to the standards he teaches, or does accountability apply only to other people’s institutions? Professor lecture thyself! I believe Scott Galloway should seriously consider whether his continued service on the Board of Regents is consistent with the ethical standards and responsibilities of that office, or whether he should resign. I welcome the opportunity to discuss these issues with Galloway directly, including what standards we should expect of those entrusted with governing the world’s best university. Scott, you have an open invitation to join me on @Into_Impossible for an honest conversation.

Voters punished Republicans on November 3—but they also banned men from women’s sports in Nebraska, barred racial preferences in Wisconsin, and look set to reject California’s wealth tax. @Sean_Speer: this was a partisan defeat, not a progressive mandate.

“There is no reason why the Trump administration cannot have a successful last two years. The economy is growing.” —@VDHanson GOP needs to read Victor’s post again and again. Then read it again. He’s right. (Not surprising but a reminder that serious historians are wise.)