Steven Hayward

3 days ago | springsmag.com | Steven Hayward

When I first started writing for Springs magazine, I had no idea I was signing up for a decade-long education in how to fail spectacularly at things other people make look easy. I figured I’d write a few articles, avoid killing myself, eat at a few restaurants — maybe more than a few — get to learn a little about the place where I’d just moved, and call it good.

3 days ago | stevehayward.substack.com | Steven Hayward

• Let’s start with a good news story today, and a total victory over Communism: Florida’s Board of Governors, which overseas the entire state university system, has rejectedYoko Santa Ono as the sole candidate to be the next president of the University of Florida. Throughout Ono’s career as current president of the University of Michigan and previously at the University of British Columbia he was a cheerleader for all of the worst cliches of DEI, “anti-racism,” and the rest.

4 days ago | stevehayward.substack.com | Steven Hayward

• So having written here just a couple days ago about how no foreign student risks learning much of anything about America at Harvard’s highly technocratic and progressive Kennedy School of Government, today I am pleased to see Wall Street Journal columnist Gerard Baker take up the question, “Which Is Worse—Harvard or Trump?” Happily, he gets the right answer: Readers of a certain mindset will smile inwardly when they hear that the college at the pinnacle of America’s higher education is also...

5 days ago | stevehayward.substack.com | Steven Hayward

King Charles III made a bloody fool of himself on his recent visit to Canada, when he declared at the beginning of his address to Canada’s parliament: "I would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people. This land acknowledgement is a recognition of shared history as a nation."Oh good grief, where to begin? Political Questions is a reader-supported publication.

6 days ago | stevehayward.substack.com | Steven Hayward

Harvard would no doubt strenuously object to the charge that they are “un-American,” yelling “McCarthyism!” and other voodoo curses. But let this headline from the Wall Street Journal slowly sink in for a moment:And by “party school,” the Chinese don’t have Saturday night keggers in mind.