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Ottawa admits trans-identifying male inmates faced sex assault charges after transfers to women’s prisons

The federal government has acknowledged that trans-identifying male inmates faced sexual-assault charges following complaints from female prisoners, while defending the policy that allows inmates to be transferred to women’s institutions based on gender identity.

The admissions are contained in Ottawa’s Statement of Defence responding to a constitutional challenge filed by Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights, or CAWSBAR.

According to the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, which is funding the challenge, the government confirmed that an inmate identified as S/M was charged with one count of sexual assault and one count of criminal harassment in May 2020 after a female inmate complained.

Ottawa also confirmed that another inmate, identified as KF/R, was charged with two counts of sexual assault after a complaint from a female prisoner in October 2024.

Charges have not been proven in court.

The government’s defence acknowledges other complaints involving trans-identifying male inmates in women’s facilities. They include a 2018 complaint that led to a police investigation but no charges, a 2021 complaint alleging sexual and physical assault at Fraser Valley Institution and a 2019 sexual-assault report at Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge.

Despite those incidents, Ottawa “wholly denies that any alleged harm to inmates housed in women’s institutions flowed from the implementation” of Correctional Service Canada’s gender policy.

The government argues that individualized assessments and institutional safeguards provide an appropriate framework for managing risks.

CAWSBAR launched the constitutional challenge in April 2025, alleging that permitting biological male inmates to be housed in women’s prisons exposes female prisoners to physical and psychological harm and violates their Charter right to life, liberty and security of the person.

“Female inmates are being exposed to real risks and real harm,” constitutional lawyer Chris Fleury said. “This case is about protecting their safety, dignity and constitutional rights.”

Correctional Service Canada introduced its current gender-diverse-offender policy in May 2022.

In May 2026, the Federal Court rejected Ottawa’s attempt to strike the lawsuit and granted CAWSBAR public-interest standing. The federal government is now asking the court to dismiss the challenge with costs.

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SO DUMB: California Now Planning to Force Companies to Disclose ‘Historic Links to Slavery’

California has seen a mass exodus of companies from their state in recent years due to ridiculously high taxes, burdensome regulations, and the draconian lock down policies of Gavin Newsom during Covid-19.

Are they trying to fix any of this in order to retain the businesses that haven’t fled? Nope. In fact, they are about to make things even worse.

California is now planning to force companies to disclose any historic ties to slavery. Is Governor Newsom aware that California never even had slavery?

From the New York Post:

The bill is facing pushback from insurance companies, which argue it largely repeats an earlier California law requiring insurers to disclose past policies issued to slaveholders that covered the death or injury of enslaved people.

New York Life Insurance Company, Aetna Life Insurance Company and American International Group, known as AIG, were among the companies that disclosed ties to enslaved people and slaveholders.

Some reparations advocates have viewed the measure as a significant step forward, while others have questioned how much of an impact it would actually have.

The bill, known as Assembly Bill 2599, would require companies with more than $100 million in annual worldwide sales to search their records for evidence that they, their predecessors or subsidiaries bought or sold enslaved people or provided financial support for those transactions, including through insurance or loans.

The measure would only take effect if the Legislature sets aside funding for it, a requirement added through late amendments.

Once funding is allocated, the California Civil Rights Department would be required to create a digital platform for the disclosures.

Companies are going to keep leaving, and who can blame them?

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Pennsylvania Democrats ERASE “Mother” and “Woman” From State Health Code — Replaced With “Postpartum Individual” in Radical Gender Ideology Push

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s administration is quietly attempting to erase women and mothers from the Commonwealth’s health code in the name of radical gender ideology.

Buried inside a sweeping 502-page regulatory proposal from the Pennsylvania Department of Health are multiple revisions that strike the words “woman” and “mother” and replace them with dehumanizing, gender-neutral terms such as “individual” and “postpartum individual.”

The changes were first uncovered by The Daily Wire. The proposed overhaul of 28 Pa. Code Chapter 27, which governs communicable and noncommunicable diseases, was published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin on August 8.

The Shapiro administration apparently believes the words “mother” and “woman” are now too offensive for Pennsylvania’s official health regulations.

You simply cannot make this up. Under the proposed changes:

  • “Pregnant woman” becomes “pregnant individual.”
  • “Mother of a newborn” becomes “postpartum individual.”
  • “Mother of stillborn” is replaced with “case of stillbirth,” while references to the mother are changed to “postpartum individual.”
  • A “mother’s medical record” becomes a “postpartum individual’s medical record.”
  • Language referring to medical professionals attending women during childbirth is rewritten to say they attend “individuals.”

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Canadian Broadcasting Corp Tells Staff Not to Refer to 9/11 as ‘Terrorist Attack’

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) sent a memo to its reporters and editors this week instructing them not to refer to the September 11, 2001, attack on America as a “terrorist attack.”

The memo, first reported by an astonished Warren Kinsella at the Toronto Sun, used boldface type to emphasize the directive to CBC employees.

“Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks,” the memo said bluntly.

“The hijackings led to passenger jet crashes in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania and Manhattan. The World Trade Center was destroyed,” the memo continued, by way of explaining why the atrocity seen by most of the world as the textbook example of a “terrorist attack” should not be described as such.

According to Kinsella, the memo originated with Basem Boshra, the Senior Director of Journalistic Standards and Public Trust at CBC News.

Kinsella reached out to CBC to ask for further insights on why “hijackings” that “led to passenger jet crashes” should not be treated as terrorism.

The response, from CBC spokeswoman Kerry Kelly, was this:

CBC’s longstanding language guidance regarding the terms ‘terrorist’ and ‘terrorism’ is a preference for the use of these words with attribution, a practice shared by many of the world’s top journalistic organizations. Our general manager and editor in chief has written publicly in the past on the subject.

In other words, CBC claimed it was following in the footsteps of news organizations that have invented lively euphemisms for terrorists, such as “activists” or “militants.” The CBC guide also seemed to be using a dash of passive voice to whitewash the horror of 9/11, as if those passenger jet crashes were a force of nature, or an unexpected consequence of the crazy hijinks of the hijackers.

Kelly tried again when the New York Post (NYP) came calling on Thursday, and arguably dug the CBC’s hole even deeper:

Our focus is to report the facts of such atrocities with accuracy, clarity and detail; to convey the scale and scope of violent acts wherever they occur; to quote the people affected, and to convey the views of officials and experts on these events. We bear witness.

But CBC News does not itself designate specific groups as terrorists, or specific acts as terrorism, regardless of the region or the events, because these words are so loaded with meaning, politics and emotion that they can end up being impediments to our journalism.

The NYP pointed out that even Osama bin Laden referred to the 9/11 attack as an act of “blessed terror,” which really ought to be good enough for the CBC.

By the time Kelly got around to Canada’s National Post, she was engaging in Matrix-level reality distortions by claiming it was “wholly inaccurate to state our journalists have been urged to declare that this was not a terrorist act” – even though the memo said literally, exactly that, and in boldface type to boot. The CBC spokeswoman was effectively arguing there is a difference between refusing to call 9/11 a terrorist attack, and definitively stating that it was not one.

Kelly also tried to justify the memo by pointing out that CBC refused to call the October 7, 2023, atrocities perpetrated against Israel by Hamas “terrorism,” an argument that did not exactly provide the escalator ride out of the moral basement that she was hoping for.

The October 2023 blog post Kelly referred to, written by CBC News editor in chief Brodie Fenlon, offered a version of the hoary “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” canard – written after an earlier memo ordering CBC reporters not to call the Hamas attack “terrorism” was leaked to the public.

“CBC News is independent of any and all governments, yet we and other news organizations have been regularly lobbied over the years by many opposing groups to label certain people or acts of violence as terrorism – precisely because the word is so important to them and carries so much weight,” he wrote.

Fenlon quoted the relevant passage from the CBC style guide:

Exercise extreme caution before using the words terrorist and terrorism. While the language is not seriously disputed in some cases, it’s less clear if not highly contested at other times — which can lead to virtually endless questions about consistency and impartiality in our coverage of various attacks around the world.

Terrorism generally implies attacks against unarmed civilians for political, religious or some other ideological reason. But it’s a highly controversial term that can leave journalists taking sides in a conflict.

Outrage quickly boiled over on both sides of the border. Conservative MP Rachael Thomas pronounced the CBC memo “absolutely shameful,” and accused the outlet of “choosing to redefine terrorism in a way that downplays the atrocity of 9/11.”

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Meet Toronto Police Sgt. Blain Young: “paid duty hog” and censorious thug

You may recall that we recently attended a WNBA game at Scotiabank Arena, where the Toronto Tempo were hosting the Indiana Fever. We brought along our big, beautiful billboard truck. We were again taking a stand against “transanity” — you know, that intersection in which radical transgenderism collides with insanity.

So it was we displayed our “keep female sports female” messaging. That’s because the woefully woke cowards running the WNBA are struggling with the definition of the word “woman”.

Yes, the “W” in WNBA stands for “Women’s”. But the powers-that-be in the WNBA — ranging from the Commissioner to the head of the players’ association — are aghast when it comes to defining what a woman is.

Is a woman a person born female at birth? Or is a woman a dude, with his wedding tackle still firmly affixed, claiming to be a woman? Oh, what to do, what to do?

Alas, in the name of inclusion, the WNBA is terrified to take a principled stance based on biology because doing so might offend the lunatic fringe. And so it is that the WNBA is at risk of having men pretending to be women joining the league. Indeed, two ex-NBA players have said they are making themselves available at the WNBA draft later this year. The WNBA is at risk of becoming a bad joke without a punchline.

Now, we know the vast majority of people reject transanity. And we know that even a Grade 1 student knows the difference between a man and a woman. But get this: it appears that the Toronto Police Service is all-in when it comes to radical transgenderism. Indeed, no fewer than seven police officers immediately swarmed our truck once it stopped by Scotiabank Arena!

You’d be hard pressed to find a more woke police force than the Toronto Police Service. This is not conjecture. Do you know all Toronto police officers have to take a transgender training module? Do you know there’s a transgender police cruiser in the fleet, and its purpose is to give free rides to transgenders?

You see, the woke brass at the Toronto Police Service subscribe to a mantra. No, that mantra is not “To serve and protect”. Rather, the new and improved whiz-bang slogan of the TPS is: “If it’s trans it’s good, and if it’s good it’s trans.”

So it was that our truck was deemed to be displaying a hateful message. Apparently, our messages were offensive to confused men who can’t figure out their gender. And it was illicitly shutdown.

In the aftermath of this incident, we have an update on the ringleader of those censorious thugs. His name is Sergeant Blain Young.

Here’s what you need to know about Blain Young. For starters, according to our sources, he is a “paid duty hog.” Meaning that Blain is constantly taking paid duty assignments. Not to ensure public safety, mind you, but to bolster his bank account.

And this hog is indeed one busy beaver. Last year, he earned more than $357,000 plus benefits. That’s astonishing.

We would further argue that the Toronto Police has never enriched a cop for being so incompetent.

Oh, it’s not just the bogus tickets Blain’s minions handed out to our truck driver, Mark. An incredible incident from Auguust 3, 2022 saw Young in his police SUV seeking to ticket cyclists in High Park. Because, you see, in crime-infested Toronto, people riding their bicycles too fast in a park is a top priority for law enforcement. We have video evidence of Blain blowing through a stop sign — and hitting a cyclist in the process.

His excuse? The sun was in his eyes. Try using that line next time you’re pulled over for a traffic violation.

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Democrats’ Racial Grievances Are Just A Cynical Grift

n November 2012, then Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz declared of the newly elected Congress: “They [Republicans] got whiter and more male, and we now have a majority minority and female caucus for the first time in history.” Fourteen years later, Wasserman Schultz, currently a representative for Florida’s 25th congressional district — a district whose boundaries were shifted earlier this year — has shifted to campaign in another, neighboring Florida district. In the supremest of ironies, it is not only majority-minority (49 percent black), but has been represented by black Democrats since the 1990s.

Wasserman Schultz’s decision to change districts to increase her chances of staying in Congress — soundly defeating the competition, including scandal-ridden Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick on Aug. 18 — not only presents a remarkably blatant example of the former DNC Chair’s hypocrisy, but proof positive that leftist propaganda about racial ideology will always take a backseat to politics. Whether the grifting is of a racial or gender bent, the woke objective has never been about justice, but the cynical exploitation of the language of “diversity” to secure political dominance.

Even Democrats Sniffed A Florida Scam

The hypocrisy of Wasserman Schultz shifting districts to represent a majority-minority district was not lost upon black Democrats there, especially given analysts expect the number of black lawmakers will decrease after the midterm election.

“She’s been an ally, but suddenly it’s feeling more like she’s using the familiarity she’s built against us,” Corey Shearer, president of Broward County’s Black Democratic Caucus recently told the Washington Post.

Of Florida’s fifteen elected DNC members, ten of them signed a statement declaring that Wasserman Schultz was “treating one of Florida’s few remaining majority-Black districts as a political opportunity.” The statement added: “We cannot claim to defend voting rights, racial justice, and representation while undermining Black political power when it becomes politically convenient.”

Wasserman Schultz’s opportunistic political play even elicited criticism from national party leaders. House Majority Leader Hakeem Jeffries refused to endorse her, describing “the sensitivities of the moment in terms of an unprecedented Jim Crow-like assault on Black political representation.”

Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Yvette D. Clarke in turn explained: “We had a conversation …. Encouragement was not a part of that conversation.” The liberal American Prospect described Wasserman Schultz as “lily-white” and attacked her for “parachut[ing] into a race alongside four viable Black candidates.”

The Left Attacks ‘Structural Racism’ … Until It’s Inconvenient

Wasserman Schultz will probably win the heavily Democratic FL-20 in November — her Republican opponent Brent Anderson has raised far less money than her, and of the district’s registered voters, more than 55 percent of them are Democrats. That her likely victory is in direct contradiction with her own remarks on the racial composition of Congress (let alone the broader platform of her party) obviously illuminates Wasserman Schultz’s hypocrisy. But it also demonstrates that for as much as the left foregrounds race as the most important political issue of our time, the reality is that even the woke ideologues will always prioritize political power over ideological consistency.

During the 2020 presidential election, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden asserted: “we must dismantle systemic racism;” his running mate Kamala Harris condemned the “structural racism” of the United States. In 2022, Hakeem Jeffries, who is a potential contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, demanded the nation “address the poison of white supremacy,” a poison that supposedly affected “the whole country.” Earlier, this year, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, on the short list for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, opined: “If you are in this country and you are not Black, you benefit from a system of white supremacy.”

Obviously, the left is beholden to grievance narratives antithetical to American history, identity, and our constitutional order. As much as offering obeisance to those narratives rallies the base or presents a means of tarring conservatives as racist, fascist defenders of the patriarchy, liberals exploit them for political advantage. But when they don’t, or even undermine their grasp on power… well, that’s how we get Debbie “Downer” Wasserman Schultz claiming: “We don’t want to lose the power and experience I have for Broward.” (Or Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey, who, despite complaints about “400 years worth of institutionalized racism” and demanding “massive structural change” to American cities, was last year elected to a third term.)

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The rape gang trial the UK establishment doesn’t want you to know about

The trial of six members of a Pakistani ‘grooming gang’ has quietly restarted in Manchester. The retrial hasn’t made the headlines, and looking at the sordid details of the case, it’s clear the British establishment wants to keep it that way.

The six suspects were alleged members of the Rochdale grooming gang – a group of Muslim men, predominantly Pakistani, who trafficked, sexually abused, and raped underage white British girls in the northern English town between the 1980s and 2010s. More than 75 men have been charged and 53 convicted since Greater Manchester Police began investigating the gang in 2010.

What are the men accused of?

The suspects have been charged with 46 counts of rape, sexual assault, and ‘assault by penetration’, with two of the men facing more than a dozen charges each.

  • Tahrir Rashid, 53, 12 counts of rape, 3 counts of indecent assault, 1 count of assault by penetration
  • Mohammed Saleem, 46, 8 counts of rape
  • Sucklane Shah, 46, 2 counts of rape
  • Itfaq Hussain, 45, 3 counts of rape
  • Arshad Mohammed, 55, 5 counts of rape
  • Amjad Mahmood, 53, 12 counts of rape, 2 counts of indecency with a child, 1 count of indecent assault, 2 counts of assault by penetration

All of the suspects’ alleged offenses took place between 2003 and 2008, and involved two girls who were as young as 13 when they were “passed around” between the gang, according to prosecutors. Rashid, the alleged ringleader, is also accused of raping a 12-year-old girl in the 1980s.

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UC Berkeley Math Professor Makes a Startling Revelation About Her Students as She Blasts School’s Woke Admissions Policy, Which an Obama Admin. Official Implemented

One of the nation’s supposedly most rigorous colleges is completely infested with unqualified students, forcing a calculus teacher to come forward with a stunning revelation.

Zvezdelina Stankova, a professor of mathematics at UC Berkeley, wrote a damning op-ed in the San Francisco Standard last week excoriating the university’s woke admissions standards, which Then-President Janet Napolitano implemented.

Back in 2020, Napolitano, who served as Homeland Security Secretary under former President Barack Obama, overruled a task force that urged the school to phase out the SAT and ACT.

She argued that doing so was proper due to pandemic disruptions and ‘equity’ concerns.

The Regents voted later that year to make testing optional. Then, a court ruling focused on access for students with disabilities required UC to become test-blind through 2025.

Due to this policy, Stankova noted that because the kids are so far behind on mathematics, she has to spend her time teaching middle-school math to them.

Not high school. Middle school.

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Is Amazon Suppressing a Book That Criticizes Islam?

Yes, I wrote the book in question, but that’s beside the point. If they can do it to me, they can do it to anyone who doesn’t hold the views that the leftist establishment finds acceptable. With Amazon being almost the only source for books now, and by far the largest, that’s a dangerous development for any society that values the freedom of speech.

It’s an odd thing. My latest book, The Tragedy of Islam: it has an Amazon page, and that page seems to be in full working order. You can find it here.

If, however, you didn’t click on that link I just provided, but instead went to Amazon and tried to find the book yourself, if your experience is anything like mine just now, you will see that the book is impossible to find. Search for it every which way, and it does not come up. Is Amazon trying to suppress access to this book? It sure looks as if it is.

I asked several other people to replicate this experiment, and they had the same results: They could find the book by clicking on a pre-existing link, but no matter what they searched for at Amazon, including the book’s specific title, subtitle, and author, it doesn’t come up. If you have a minute, please try it yourself and let me know in the comments what results you get.

I found this out because I needed the link to the book’s sale page, and as I was already at Amazon, instead of going to my website and clicking on the link there, I typed the book’s title into the search bar. What came up for “The Tragedy of Islam” was Imam Mohammad Tawhidi’s book from several years ago of the same name and a host of other books with similar names, but my book The Tragedy of Islam was nowhere to be seen. In fact, my book did not appear on the entire page of results for a search of the exact title of the book.

This is not normal. I typed in the names of a few of my other recent books, and they came right up in the searches, either as the first or second result.

So I started to search for The Tragedy of Islam with more information: by the full title, The Tragedy of Islam: Failure and Excuses, as well as “The Tragedy of Islam Spencer,” “The Tragedy of Islam Robert Spencer,” “The Tragedy of Islam by Robert Spencer,” and even “The Tragedy of Islam: Failure and Excuses by Robert Spencer, Bombardier Books.” Every search turned up another book I had written, or else Tawhidi’s book. None of the searches, not one, turned up the actual book The Tragedy of Islam: Failure and Excuses anywhere on the first page of search results.

Yet the book is offered at Amazon. Apparently, however, you can only get to it by clicking on a link to it you may find somewhere, not by searching at Amazon. This is a new form of censorship I haven’t encountered before. Amazon can say that they are offering the book for sale and that all is well. They’re just hiding it.

In the past, Amazon has dropped Mohammed’s Koran by Peter McLoughlin and Tommy Robinson, as well as McLoughlin’s Easy Meat about the Muslim rape gang scandals in the UK, and so it’s not at all beyond the realm of possibility that they’re suppressing The Tragedy of Islam, which argues that Islam is a failure, bad for both individuals and societies. They got a lot of heat, however, for dropping the earlier books, and so this time they can say there is no problem at all: The book is in stock and listed, and they’re taking orders for it. Hiding it? Ah, come on, Spencer, you’re just being paranoid!

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They’re Getting Revenge, Starting Today…

I absolutely insist to you: I really am trying to stop writing about this topic. But too much insanity keeps breaking out, and I have no choice but to comment on it.

You know the story: a Cambridge academic, Jason Arday, was found to have plagiarized his dissertation, borrowed heavily from others in his published articles, produced essentially worthless research, called the police on a reporter and on a professor who asked questions about his resume, invented wild tales of athletic and academic achievement as well as philanthropic work, and (of course) accused his critics of “racism.” And then, late last week, he was found dead at his home in an apparent suicide.

That would have been it, but the left – instead of the embarrassment it should feel at having promoted the greatest academic charlatan of the past ten years (and that’s saying something) – is trying to play the victim here: mean right-wingers in the media shouldn’t have pushed so hard on the Arday story.

This is coming from people who call their enemies Nazis 24 hours a day without thinking there might be a problem with that.

Anyway, here’s the latest: the university that employs Nathan Cofnas, the academic who first broke the story about Jason Arday’s plagiarism and worthless “research,” is now being investigated by his own university for breaking the story.

Just when you think academia can’t be a bigger joke, it always finds some way to outdo itself.

Ghent University rector Petra de Sutter, former leader of the Green Party, issued a statement to the effect that while Ghent attaches “great importance to academic freedom and to open academic debate, even when views are controversial,” it wants the world to know that of course it doesn’t really mean that:

“That freedom is not unlimited. It goes hand in hand with responsibility and may be restricted in order to protect the rights of others.

“For this reason, the university takes the recent public statements made by a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University regarding this matter very seriously. Ghent University has decided to take appropriate action within its powers and the applicable framework.”

Well, we just found out what that means.

They just suspended Nathan Cofnas, and he will almost surely be fired.

Cofnas wrote the original report on Jason Arday that forced academia to take notice. What he found was too embarrassing not to elicit a response. And his point is: Arday is not an isolated case. For that he cannot be forgiven.

As Cofnas put it on August 11:

In 2023, the Guardian itself (!) published a breathless article titled “Jason Arday: he learned to talk at 11 and read at 18 – then became Cambridge’s youngest Black professor.”

More than a dozen academic journals gave the imprimatur of “peer review” to Arday’s plagiarized wokebabble.

The prestigious New York publisher Simon & Schuster is still going ahead with his memoirs.

Now the Guardian wants us to think this is just about “one academic and his bosses at Cambridge”?

There are thousands of Jason Ardays in universities all over the Western world. The only thing special about Arday is that he took the plagiarism and lies about his personal life too far, so there was a hook for a news story. But even that wasn’t enough to get him removed from academia. Until last Wednesday Cambridge was still smearing his critics as waging a “vile campaign.” He crossed the line not by being an incompetent fraud, but by claiming prestigious affiliations that he didn’t have, creating conflict between Cambridge and other universities.

“DEI” means achieving representation by doing away with elementary standards for certain people based on race. Just take a look at the content of “peer-reviewed” journals like Whiteness in Education and Educational Philosophy and Theory. The other papers in these journals are just like those written by Arday—someone who is now widely recognized to be mentally disabled.

The people trying to write this off as a fluke or an isolated case of “research misconduct” are at best delusional. The ideology of elite institutions is DEI, and DEI is Jason Arday.

This was the most embarrassing academic episode of my lifetime. Everyone just witnessed a clear-cut case of academic fraud, a man who literally called the police on people who questioned his resume, and the overwhelming response from academia was to scream “racism” and sign a petition in his defense.

After they did that, the really embarrassing stuff came out, and they persisted.

So the mask is off, in case there’s still anyone out there who didn’t know what was behind it. The whole edifice of academia nowadays is held together with Scotch tape and piano wire, and slogans.

The institutions will survive as shells of their former selves, but what was once inside will disappear. Adrian Vermeule, the one sane person at Harvard Law School, just wrote: “The elite universities are of course going to survive. They’ve been around forever and will continue on in some form. What will not survive, however, is a certain idea of the scholarly mission and life. It died of its own weakness, an inability to resist invading barbarians.”

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