Aaron Sibarium

On November 16, 2023, just before 8:00 a.m., hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters formed a human chain across the San Francisco Bay Bridge, blocking all westbound traffic and trapping tens of thousands of vehicles in a five-mile backup.

In September 2022, the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) made a bold promise to the school’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Engagement: from then on, the department said, 50 percent of all faculty hires would be either women or minorities.

Editor's Note: This article was originally published by the Washington Free Beacon on November 26, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus's style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission.

Is banning puberty blockers for minors the same as banning interracial marriage for adults? Why should girls be forced to develop breasts? Are powerful drugs that can cause infertility really so different from aspirin?Those were some of the questions posed to Matthew Rice, the solicitor general of Tennessee, as he defended his state’s ban on pediatric gender medicine before the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The case, United States v. Skrmetti, could decide whether similar bans in another 25 states are constitutional. While the Court’s liberal justices seemed quite convinced that the answer was no, the conservative majority appeared inclined to uphold the law.

Draft standards call on doctors to ‘develop an equitable and just scientific knowledge base.'

The top neuropsychology organizations in North America may soon adopt training guidelines that call on clinicians to use "social justice frameworks," acknowledge "systemic oppression," and pursue "equitable and just scientific knowledge," according to a copy of the guidelines reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

Yale students have overwhelmingly passed a referendum calling on the university to divest from weapons manufacturers arming Israel.

Amy Wax, the tenured law professor who was disciplined by the University of Pennsylvania for making controversial remarks about race and gender, told Penn on Thursday that she will sue the university for race discrimination if it does not drop the sanctions against her, according to a letter from Wax's lawyers obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. It's the latest salvo in a nearly three-year-long battle between Wax and the Ivy League school, which announced in September that it was suspending her at half-pay for one year.

The Washington Free Beacon spoke to Blum about his recent victory and his time in the Jewish state. During the interview, which has been edited for length and clarity, Blum discussed the significance of the NASDAQ ruling, the next stage of the fight against racial preferences, the mood in Israel after Donald Trump's election, and the joys of Israeli farmwork.

On June 11, 2020, PayPal launched a $530 million program to invest in "minority-focused investment funds" and "address economic inequality." One of the first people to inquire about the program was Nisha Desai, the CEO of Andav Capital.