Tag: HotAir

Equitable Grading? – HotAir

Grades are racist or something.  So, school districts are rethinking the idea of grading altogether. Perhaps nobody should get A’s, D’s, or F’s.  Everybody is average, and average is all right with them.  Dublin Unified School District (east of the Bay Area) is dropping the traditional grading system in favor of “Equity Grading,” and it looks […]

Abolish DEI Statements – HotAir

Earlier this month a Harvard Law School professor named Randall Kennedy called for the end of mandatory DEI statements, saying they made him “wince” and that they discredited the current “DEI regime.” Candidates for academic positions at Harvard should not be asked to support ideological commitments. Imagine the howl of protest that would (or should) […]

The Left is Upset that Their Protesters Can’t Ignore All the Rules All the Time – HotAir

Yesterday more than 100 protesters were arrested on the campus of Columbia University by NYPD officers who’d been invited on campus by President Shafik. Today, voices on the left are reacting angrily to that spectacle. Columnist Michelle Goldberg, had her usual knee-jerk response, blaming everything on Republicans. Columbia’s exceptionally poised president, Nemat Shafik, clearly has […]

Arrested for Being ‘Openly Jewish?’ – HotAir

“You are quite openly Jewish. This is a pro-Palestinian march. I am not accusing you of anything but I am worried about the reaction to your presence.” With those words, a London police officer explained to Gideon Falter that if he did not leave the area he would be arrested for threatening the peace.  Arrested for […]

Come On, Man! – HotAir

Message delivered. Message received? It certainly appears that way … for now.  Last night, Israel defied Joe Biden’s “Don’t II: Craven Boogaloo” advice and hit an airbase near Isfahan, as Jazz wrote a short time ago. Initial reports made it appear that Israel had opted for the nuclear option, as in ‘hitting all the identified […]