private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, founded 1861
Imagine a car without an engine. It doesn’t need expensive gasoline. It can reach fairly high speeds — if it’s going down a steep and long enough grade. Now imagine…
On Sept. 5, 2025, the U.S. Energy Department’s official X account posted an Aug. 23, 2025, Washington Examiner article featuring Energy Secretary Chris Wright. The accompanying text in the post…
Jessica Schwalb writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a questionable appointment at a major Ivy League school. Brown University is launching a “campus-wide healing and recovery” initiative aimed at…
Jessica Costescu writes for the Washington Free Beacon about an interesting new development in higher education. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) was instrumental in holding university presidents accountable as anti-Semitism…
Lee Fang writes for Real Clear Investigations about a threat to basic mathematical skills. Jim Simons’ mathematical skills helped transform him from a prize-winning academic at Harvard and MIT into…
James Lynch writes for National Review Online about a key piece of the recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill. The new tax on large university endowments, passed as part of…
Chuck Ross of the Washington Free Beacon documents a disturbing link between an Ivy League school and Chinese funding sources. The founder of Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent—which the Pentagon blacklisted…
Aaron Sibarium of the Washington Free Beacon highlights another plagiarism controversy at a high-profile elite university. In June 2021, a year into the cultural aftershocks of George Floyd’s death, the…
Jessica Costescu writes for the Washington Free Beacon about another elite university bowing to anti-Israel agitators. In the run-up to an annual Israeli Independence Day celebration at the Massachusetts Institute…
Power bills are going up quickly in North Carolina. The problem is multifaceted, starting with the state’s Carbon Plan to close down working coal plants and dictate how to replace…
My recent piece in Washington Examiner looks at the issue of massive subsidization of certain energy sources and then pretending they’re not expensive. It also criticizes the central planning behind…
Alec Schemmel of the Washington Free Beacon reports one prominent school’s recent missteps in its approach to fighting antisemitism. Last fall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology president Sally Kornbluth tapped a…