I have always liked Caldwell's analysis--it seems to me to be spot on. In addition to turning off the federal spigot, Trump should review the whole tax structure underlying nonprofit tax exempt status. Educational institutons--and the whole range of NGOs and private foundations that support their Leftist agenda--need to be subject to caps on their endowments that force them to comport themselves in accordance with their "public charitable purpose" and to compete in the market for ideas.
One other non profit tax exempt institutions Trump might examine is churches who are by law (I think) not supposed to engage in politics either left or right. However, many do. Maybe they should lose their tax exempt status also.
The churches I’ve gone to stay apolitical precisely for that reason. However, churches have lawful political activity, like inviting all candidates to introduce themselves in a service. A politician who crosses the line in his speech will be lectured by the Pastor.
For academics like Eisgruber, there’s only one thing worse than being racist: being stupid. Chris, you have therefore pulled off the ultimate insult: you said he was too dumb to understand his own racialist position. An amazing double shot!
Eisgruber is an admitted racist. In 2020 he bragged that Princeton was a racist university and he has only doubled down since then. I recently spoke to the head of the Civil Rights Division at DOJ, reminded her of Eisgruber's admission, and encouraged the DOJ to prosecute Princeton for its civil rights violations.
Eisgruber is a racist because he supports a skin-color based system of admissions and other preferences. That is the very definition of "racist"--at least before the Left, in typically Orwellian fashion, redefined the term.
Trump is not "controlling" Harvard or any other private institution. He is merely attaching strings to public money, as has been federal policy for decades. Harvard can choose (like Hillsdale College) to not accept federal funds if they don't like it.
I suggest that you re-read Chris' article, this time with an open mind.
The elimination of legacy admissions is one of the reforms that need to occur, as is the totally out of control "athletics" sector.
You make assumptions about my positions without knowing what I think--not too smart of you. But yeah, you are defending a losing proposition, so you need to make stuff up.
Anytime you see "LOL" in a post, you know you are dealing with someone whose got nothing.
At least at Princeton, legacy admissions have a higher average SAT score than non-legacy students. Intelligence is tightly linked to inheritance so it makes sense they would qualify for admission. DEI students have lower average SAT scores.
When I use the term DEI it refers to anyone admitted for a reason other than merit. You seem obsessed with race but Dems always have been. Orville Faubus was a Democrat, as were most of the race-obsessives of the 1950s (George Wallace, Strom Thurmond, Allan Shivers, etc). You have to hand it to the Dems who successfully pivoted from fomenting race hatred against blacks to whites. That's what you would expect from the party of the Confederacy that started the Civil War.
"Universities are free to operate as independent institutions and reject federal money—but if they choose to accept billions in taxpayer dollars, they must follow the law."
Endowment is way bigger than the federal money. So, we'll see how that goes.
Good news, though. Now all the biomedical research, etc. can be done by private citizens in their backyard sheds.
It's nice to know how many are now onboard with the government attacking private institutions, tax-exempt status, etc. and attempting to control them per the leaders wishes.
I guess you are like Eisgruber. You don’t understand that colour-blindness is just that. You will be judged on your character and in how good you are at doing things, and not on your skin colour.
Yes. I'm a white educated woman and even I can see white educated women are a problem. To be fair to these younger-than-me women, the indoctrination escalated since I was in school. Poor kids are told what to think, and don't know their teachers are biased. Not taught to think critically, they can't evaluate the water in which they swim. Taught to be toxic, they are themselves unwittingly poisoned.
“Not taught to think critically . . . (instead) Taught to be toxic.” How true! While parents do send their kids to public schools to be taught to think critically as part of their education the schooling industry has contrived to do the opposite. Critical pedagogy is what now applies. Googling the question, what is the difference between critical thinking and critical pedagogy brings forward the AI Overview: “While both involve questioning and analysis critical thinking focuses on developing skills to evaluate information and draw sound conclusions, whereas critical pedagogy emphasizes using education to challenge power structures and promote social justice.” So, you see, parents (and public) are hoodwinked completely when one objective is cleverly switched to another using the same word — critical!
Eisgruber is the new George Wallace. Democrats have always been pro segregation. Glad Rufo and the administration have exposed the “experts” as idiots who have painted themselves into a corner.
Columbia has appointed its third president in the past year. Claire Shipman is a former CNN “journalist” who has no experience in academia. Brown promoted the head of DEI of its medical school to VP of student life: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/claire-shipman-columbia-president
The University where I did research put all there black students in about 2002 into one dormitory, together, segregated. The same year we got a Black Homecoming (notice no Hispanic or White Homecoming), a Black Concert Choir (ditto the other two concert choirs we now lacked), and at the Annual Martin Luther day events in 2004 (it being held in the Black dormitory), I was not allowed to go in. I asked why, and I was told because I was white. The school administrator who instituted all this was white and had arrived at the school in 2000. Now do you understand what segregation was instituted at universities.
"Shielded by a virtuous public image, elite universities have institutionalized discrimination against disfavored racial groups, implemented DEI policies based on racial rewards and penalties, hired and promoted faculty according to skin color rather than merit, and overseen racially segregated student programs, dormitories, and graduation ceremonies", for example.
Lol. Probably none. People are free to associate with whomever they wish.
There are no "all -black dorms" on any college/university campus. Some may offer "themed dorms" for a variety of different things, but they are not legally restrictive based on race. So, you're free to move in, TDF! :) No one is stopping you
If white people want to have a separate graduation pre or post luncheon/ceremony in addition to the university one (which is what it happening) Have at it.
So, you think there would be no outrage to establishing a White Affinity group or area on Campus, or maybe have a Celebration of Whiteness. It would just be another Kumbaya moment with the students. I'm pretty sure we know how that would roll
That's why Trump admin is now demanding Harvard turn over personal records of students, banning international students, etc. They won't be stopping with just that university either
Yeah...this "fighting antisemitism" ;) is going to have some unintended
Great work. Collegiate education, particularly the historically elite institutions, need a sustained and complete shakeup across faculty and administration.
The Orville Faubus/ Little Rock analogy is right on point. For the longest time "enlightened" opinion has held that the only group that could be discriminated against are white males. Everyone else is entitled to some kind of special treatment. It is heartening to see that, under the Trump Administration, this shibboleth is dissolving. Same standards, same requirements for all. And the government will enforce that. It's about time.
You are so right, Barry. My husband's stories of what he endured looking for work in the seventies appall me. He wasn't a minority and wasn't female, so he wasn't hired.
It's not hard to see why a well intentioned idea turned into the opposite of colorblind. I guess it's natural.
It speaks to the idea that government programs should be abolished, whether they succeed at their aims or not.
If they succeed, great, the need goes away; if they fail to produce the desired result, then something else should be done other than doubling down on a failed effort.
Creative destruction, if done purposefully over time, becomes a habit of self correction and not a momentum wave as we've seen in Trump 2.0.
The 2 year house election cycle seems to be part of this. It rushes change into 1 year periods.
Given that so many are reelected, what's the purpose of these short election cycles??
They too seem to have outlived whatever usefulness or original intent.
Were the Civil Rights laws, at least in their current form, ever 'well intentioned,' given notorious racist, Lyndon Baines Johnson's enthusiastic embrace of them? They introduced collectivism in the form of protected (or privileged) groups, which essentially created a blank check for writing laws based on the leftist definitions of 'justice' and 'anti-racism,' which could ride roughshod over individual liberties. Communism through the back door!
The last part is the most impactful… do not blink. Do not take your foot off the accelerator… Make the Ivy League reform or become a no go zone for intelligent students.. the question is, can we stop the Qatar funding???
While we have whistleblower reports regarding the secret use of race at each of the universities sued, we are actively collecting more for both student admissions and faculty hiring, whether anonymous or not. If you have any leads or comments, please email me at nanzhong1@gmail.com.
This piece was in my inbox this morning. What a great way to start the day. Articulating and framing the argument.
What these academics fail to understand is that out here in the "real world" discrimination of ANY race is always a bad thing. That this needs to be said really highlights their position.
Colorblind policies are just common sense to most Americans. Then again we know that today's academics aren't most Americans and almost never utilize common sense.
Well, they're kicking and screaming and calling us names. Quite predictable. I doubt they'll be able to resist the pressure for four years. They'll lose the PR battle and lose students, or adapt. It's on us to keep up the pressure or we lose the battle. In the end they'll adapt to save face, money,
and their prestige. Or whither. I'll take either option. 😁
DEI and "woke" policies are just going underground into their tunnels. They will try to wait us out until the next racist group takes power. We need some "bunker busters" and Trump is just the guy to supply them.
I have always liked Caldwell's analysis--it seems to me to be spot on. In addition to turning off the federal spigot, Trump should review the whole tax structure underlying nonprofit tax exempt status. Educational institutons--and the whole range of NGOs and private foundations that support their Leftist agenda--need to be subject to caps on their endowments that force them to comport themselves in accordance with their "public charitable purpose" and to compete in the market for ideas.
One other non profit tax exempt institutions Trump might examine is churches who are by law (I think) not supposed to engage in politics either left or right. However, many do. Maybe they should lose their tax exempt status also.
The churches I’ve gone to stay apolitical precisely for that reason. However, churches have lawful political activity, like inviting all candidates to introduce themselves in a service. A politician who crosses the line in his speech will be lectured by the Pastor.
What about the churches you haven’t gone to? Many services online are 100% political. Are they fake?
this, a thousand times this!
For academics like Eisgruber, there’s only one thing worse than being racist: being stupid. Chris, you have therefore pulled off the ultimate insult: you said he was too dumb to understand his own racialist position. An amazing double shot!
How is Eisgruber a racist?
Nice to know that people now support Trump controlling private entities.
Eisgruber is an admitted racist. In 2020 he bragged that Princeton was a racist university and he has only doubled down since then. I recently spoke to the head of the Civil Rights Division at DOJ, reminded her of Eisgruber's admission, and encouraged the DOJ to prosecute Princeton for its civil rights violations.
Eisgruber is a racist because he supports a skin-color based system of admissions and other preferences. That is the very definition of "racist"--at least before the Left, in typically Orwellian fashion, redefined the term.
Trump is not "controlling" Harvard or any other private institution. He is merely attaching strings to public money, as has been federal policy for decades. Harvard can choose (like Hillsdale College) to not accept federal funds if they don't like it.
I suggest that you re-read Chris' article, this time with an open mind.
Yes. Those big-lipped DEIs are taking over Harvard.
We gotta get back to academic merit, especially with those legacies and athletes, amirite?
And you are an ignorant fool, amirite?
You think legacies and athletes there because of merit, amirite? Lol!!
The elimination of legacy admissions is one of the reforms that need to occur, as is the totally out of control "athletics" sector.
You make assumptions about my positions without knowing what I think--not too smart of you. But yeah, you are defending a losing proposition, so you need to make stuff up.
Anytime you see "LOL" in a post, you know you are dealing with someone whose got nothing.
At least at Princeton, legacy admissions have a higher average SAT score than non-legacy students. Intelligence is tightly linked to inheritance so it makes sense they would qualify for admission. DEI students have lower average SAT scores.
"DEIA" covers a broad spectrum (gender, race, sexual orientation, disability, etc.)
I think you mean"Black" actually
Which is what "DEI" has always REALLY meant when it is used by Cons/MAGA
Thanks! ;)
When I use the term DEI it refers to anyone admitted for a reason other than merit. You seem obsessed with race but Dems always have been. Orville Faubus was a Democrat, as were most of the race-obsessives of the 1950s (George Wallace, Strom Thurmond, Allan Shivers, etc). You have to hand it to the Dems who successfully pivoted from fomenting race hatred against blacks to whites. That's what you would expect from the party of the Confederacy that started the Civil War.
"Universities are free to operate as independent institutions and reject federal money—but if they choose to accept billions in taxpayer dollars, they must follow the law."
Endowment is way bigger than the federal money. So, we'll see how that goes.
Good news, though. Now all the biomedical research, etc. can be done by private citizens in their backyard sheds.
It's nice to know how many are now onboard with the government attacking private institutions, tax-exempt status, etc. and attempting to control them per the leaders wishes.
I think there's a word for that.
Yes, and that word is "accountability." Now you know.
The feds have been dictating university policy by attaching strings to money for decades. Why the outburst now? Oh yeah, 'cuz Trump is doing it. Fail.
For years? Sure
But not because of fake "pogroms."
Now you know. :)
I guess you are like Eisgruber. You don’t understand that colour-blindness is just that. You will be judged on your character and in how good you are at doing things, and not on your skin colour.
Chris thanks for the post. This is simple:
When a large majority of Americans don't care about being called a "racist"
by these race hustlers, this whole thing ends.
That's Trump's kyptonite. He could care less.
The last holdout, to be brutally honest, are white educated women. Between the narcicissm
and their paralyzing fear of being called a racist, sexist, or homophobe they are the constituency of the elite left.
They will not be persuaded by reason. It must a tidal wave of public opinion that ends their mass delusion.
Chris you are part of the tidal wave brother. Keep the posts coming.
Yes. I'm a white educated woman and even I can see white educated women are a problem. To be fair to these younger-than-me women, the indoctrination escalated since I was in school. Poor kids are told what to think, and don't know their teachers are biased. Not taught to think critically, they can't evaluate the water in which they swim. Taught to be toxic, they are themselves unwittingly poisoned.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Men bully physically. Women bullying verbally. The peer pressure to conform for college educated women is brutal.
You must be strong or live in a southern or rural community.
God Bless you.
“Not taught to think critically . . . (instead) Taught to be toxic.” How true! While parents do send their kids to public schools to be taught to think critically as part of their education the schooling industry has contrived to do the opposite. Critical pedagogy is what now applies. Googling the question, what is the difference between critical thinking and critical pedagogy brings forward the AI Overview: “While both involve questioning and analysis critical thinking focuses on developing skills to evaluate information and draw sound conclusions, whereas critical pedagogy emphasizes using education to challenge power structures and promote social justice.” So, you see, parents (and public) are hoodwinked completely when one objective is cleverly switched to another using the same word — critical!
Dianna so well said.
Even the AWFLs are starting to get the message. Perhaps there’s still hope for some of them…
Racism is a product of fear. Might be a key
Eisgruber is the new George Wallace. Democrats have always been pro segregation. Glad Rufo and the administration have exposed the “experts” as idiots who have painted themselves into a corner.
Columbia has appointed its third president in the past year. Claire Shipman is a former CNN “journalist” who has no experience in academia. Brown promoted the head of DEI of its medical school to VP of student life: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/claire-shipman-columbia-president
And Cornell promoted a key participant in the former regime to replace the disgraced and former President.
What “segregation” is happening?
But nice to know you support the government controlling private entities.
The University where I did research put all there black students in about 2002 into one dormitory, together, segregated. The same year we got a Black Homecoming (notice no Hispanic or White Homecoming), a Black Concert Choir (ditto the other two concert choirs we now lacked), and at the Annual Martin Luther day events in 2004 (it being held in the Black dormitory), I was not allowed to go in. I asked why, and I was told because I was white. The school administrator who instituted all this was white and had arrived at the school in 2000. Now do you understand what segregation was instituted at universities.
I do understand. In mixed schools being white is often not a benefit. But neither HS or college was so blatantly racist from admin down.
Sure, Robert. You were not allowed to go in. That totally happened.
Yeah....what university was this?
I relate history that I experienced, and you just said I was lying. Convenient, for you. It is not civil to call someone a liar.
"Shielded by a virtuous public image, elite universities have institutionalized discrimination against disfavored racial groups, implemented DEI policies based on racial rewards and penalties, hired and promoted faculty according to skin color rather than merit, and overseen racially segregated student programs, dormitories, and graduation ceremonies", for example.
WAKE THE FUCK UP, MAN.
That's a lot of words for, "White people are being discriminated against and the big-lipped blacks are stealing our jobs."
Btw, if non-whites want to live in their own dorms, have their own graduation ceremonies, etc.
SO?? What's it to you?
Not like you were interested in going/joining anyway.
America has been all about that segregation until 1965, so spare me your fake outrage. ;)
I wonder what the reaction would be to the establishment of a Whites Only dorm or Whites Only graduation would be, if it's no big deal
Lol. Probably none. People are free to associate with whomever they wish.
There are no "all -black dorms" on any college/university campus. Some may offer "themed dorms" for a variety of different things, but they are not legally restrictive based on race. So, you're free to move in, TDF! :) No one is stopping you
If white people want to have a separate graduation pre or post luncheon/ceremony in addition to the university one (which is what it happening) Have at it.
So, you think there would be no outrage to establishing a White Affinity group or area on Campus, or maybe have a Celebration of Whiteness. It would just be another Kumbaya moment with the students. I'm pretty sure we know how that would roll
It is not controlling any entity, yet does control the taxes, who and what receives our money. Endowments are private gifts.
Ok. Sure.
That's why Trump admin is now demanding Harvard turn over personal records of students, banning international students, etc. They won't be stopping with just that university either
Yeah...this "fighting antisemitism" ;) is going to have some unintended
Great work. Collegiate education, particularly the historically elite institutions, need a sustained and complete shakeup across faculty and administration.
The Orville Faubus/ Little Rock analogy is right on point. For the longest time "enlightened" opinion has held that the only group that could be discriminated against are white males. Everyone else is entitled to some kind of special treatment. It is heartening to see that, under the Trump Administration, this shibboleth is dissolving. Same standards, same requirements for all. And the government will enforce that. It's about time.
You are so right, Barry. My husband's stories of what he endured looking for work in the seventies appall me. He wasn't a minority and wasn't female, so he wasn't hired.
I remember those days, and know I was often hired for professional jobs because I was a female.
It's not hard to see why a well intentioned idea turned into the opposite of colorblind. I guess it's natural.
It speaks to the idea that government programs should be abolished, whether they succeed at their aims or not.
If they succeed, great, the need goes away; if they fail to produce the desired result, then something else should be done other than doubling down on a failed effort.
Creative destruction, if done purposefully over time, becomes a habit of self correction and not a momentum wave as we've seen in Trump 2.0.
The 2 year house election cycle seems to be part of this. It rushes change into 1 year periods.
Given that so many are reelected, what's the purpose of these short election cycles??
They too seem to have outlived whatever usefulness or original intent.
Were the Civil Rights laws, at least in their current form, ever 'well intentioned,' given notorious racist, Lyndon Baines Johnson's enthusiastic embrace of them? They introduced collectivism in the form of protected (or privileged) groups, which essentially created a blank check for writing laws based on the leftist definitions of 'justice' and 'anti-racism,' which could ride roughshod over individual liberties. Communism through the back door!
A charitable viewpoint helps to keep me sane.
The principle of intellectual charity is worthy, but it should not obscure the truth.
reminds me of the rural electrification act of 1936. you can still find the electric coops today.
Very well put. A heartfelt thank you from the millions of Americans who endorse meritocracy.
The last part is the most impactful… do not blink. Do not take your foot off the accelerator… Make the Ivy League reform or become a no go zone for intelligent students.. the question is, can we stop the Qatar funding???
Thanks both to you and President Trump, among others, for making civil rights no longer a one-way street.
Amen!
We filed lawsuits against the University of California, the University of Washington, the University of Michigan, and Cornell for racial discrimination against Asian Americans. Here is my guest post on Heterodox STEM last Sunday: https://hxstem.substack.com/p/racial-discrimination-lawsuits-against. The LA Times reported our lawsuits too: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-04/rejected-by-16-colleges-hired-by-google-now-hes-suing-some-of-the-schools-for-anti-asian-discrimination
While we have whistleblower reports regarding the secret use of race at each of the universities sued, we are actively collecting more for both student admissions and faculty hiring, whether anonymous or not. If you have any leads or comments, please email me at nanzhong1@gmail.com.
Go, Nan!
Even as a University of Washington alumnus, I say "Take them down!"
This piece was in my inbox this morning. What a great way to start the day. Articulating and framing the argument.
What these academics fail to understand is that out here in the "real world" discrimination of ANY race is always a bad thing. That this needs to be said really highlights their position.
Colorblind policies are just common sense to most Americans. Then again we know that today's academics aren't most Americans and almost never utilize common sense.
Harvard was founded in 1636 by Puritan clergy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony for clerical training.
The Puritans had moved to totalitarianism by 1692 (or perhaps earlier) with the Salem witch hunts.
I think it has come full circle -- that by the post-war era Harvard moved into totalitarianism just as its founders had.
Well, they're kicking and screaming and calling us names. Quite predictable. I doubt they'll be able to resist the pressure for four years. They'll lose the PR battle and lose students, or adapt. It's on us to keep up the pressure or we lose the battle. In the end they'll adapt to save face, money,
and their prestige. Or whither. I'll take either option. 😁
DEI and "woke" policies are just going underground into their tunnels. They will try to wait us out until the next racist group takes power. We need some "bunker busters" and Trump is just the guy to supply them.
With Christopher Rufo and Stephen Miller leading the cavalry, total victory over the Eisgrubers of the world is inevitable.