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OpenAI Claims Breakthrough in Navier-Stokes Equation, but NYU Mathematician Alleges His Work Was Copied

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 12, 2026 11 Comments

Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster asserts OpenAI cribbed the work he and a collaborator had done, which included significant progress toward solving the equation in August. OpenAI announced its team had solved the equation this week....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVTqhQuAjpY

The Humanities and Social Sciences Should Teach Civilization, Not Contempt

Posted by Nora Dimitrova Clinton on August 23, 2026 12 Comments

The social sciences should study human institutions with humility, methodological rigor, and respect for history....

State Department Steps In After Belgian University Suspends American Scholar Who Exposed Jason Arday

Posted by Elizabeth Stauffer on August 22, 2026 20 Comments

"I was just suspended by Ghent University. They will almost certainly fire me."...

Former University of Cambridge Professor Jason Arday Found Dead

Posted by Elizabeth Stauffer on August 14, 2026 61 Comments

"The relentless accusations, speculation and public commentary have taken a profound toll on me and on those I love."...

After NY’s Socialist Sweep, CNBC Host Asks the Question Every Democrat Must Answer

Posted by Elizabeth Stauffer on June 26, 2026 49 Comments

Looking like a deer in the headlights, she joked, "Is that another question, or is that for the next interview?" ...

UC Faculty Warn Test-Optional Policies Are Failing STEM Students and Hurting Real ‘Equity’

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 29, 2026 8 Comments

"The SAT/ACT mathematics requirement is not an obstacle to equity; rather, it is a prerequisite for it. Failing to measure preparation gaps does not remove barriers; it moves them into the classroom, where they become harder to overcome."...

Why have universities become the least free places when they should be the most free?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2026 20 Comments

My lecture at Cornell Law School event: "The problem is that universities like Cornell have become monocultures out of step with the rest of the country and very vindictive monocultures."...

Chinese Ph.D. Student Pleads No Contest to Smuggling Biological Materials into U.S.

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 31, 2025 15 Comments

A second Chinese national, who is charged with smuggling in a toxic fungus that is considered a potential agroterrorism weapon, also remains under arrest....

NEA Erases Jews From Holocaust in New Handbook

Posted by Ben Smith on August 23, 2025 59 Comments

"The description does not mention the attempted extermination of the Jewish people by the Nazis.”...

The Battle for Higher Education and the Manhattan Statement

Posted by Nora Dimitrova Clinton on July 23, 2025 5 Comments

"The gravest internal threat to this country is … leftist professors who are waging a war against America and teaching our young people to hate this country."...

UC Berkeley Leader Defends Pro-Hamas Prof As ‘Fine Scholar’ At Congressional Campus Antisemitism Hearing

Posted by Jane Coleman on July 16, 2025 32 Comments

University officials from Georgetown, Berkeley, and CUNY testified for over three hours before a House panel that was interrupted four times by pro-Palestine protesters....

Anti-Israel AAUP Leader Addresses ‘Comrades’ At Socialism 2025 Conference

Posted by Jane Coleman on July 09, 2025 17 Comments

NYU Professor Chenjerai Kumanyika: "I want to signal to my comrades (holding keffiyeh) — I'm here, we here."...

Faculty Civil War May Erupt As STEM Lose Grants Due To Radical Humanities Profs. Stoking Campus Mayhem

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 15, 2025 48 Comments

My appearance on Fox News Radio Evening Edit: "you have faculty in the hard sciences who are not as political, who are now paying the price for their gender studies and anthropology and political science faculty who have aided and abetted these protests, who have...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NAe6jXdd24

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