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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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1 week ago | 
stevehayward.substack.com | Steven Hayward
It’s Saturday, which can only mean one thing, even during an expedition to Iceland: the Ricochet Podcast, and the Three Whisky Happy Hour, both of which I recorded from the highest altitude tiny town in Iceland that looks like the setting for a Viking version of High Plains Drifter: Anyway, the Ricochet Podcast featured special guest Noah Rothman of National Review, with James Likeks and I discussing the fall of the New Puritans (one of Noah’s fine book titles) in the real world as they...
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1 week ago | 
stevehayward.substack.com | Steven Hayward
I can feel President Trump’s pain. The U.S. Court of International Trade—yeah, I had never heard of it before this week either—is one of those “inferior courts” that Article III of the Constitution says Congress may establish. Such courts are usually for narrow and specific purposes, like hearing Social Security appeals, or contract disputes with the federal government (the Federal Court of Claims)—things that regular district courts don’t want to have clogging their dockets.
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1 week ago | 
stevehayward.substack.com | Steven Hayward
So I’m enjoying Iceland, whose glaciers immediately brings to mind feminist glaciology. Actually no, it doesn’t. Not even a little bit. Quite the contrary: it makes evident the foolishness of academics who can write things like this:Glaciers are key icons of climate change and global environmental change. However, the relationships among gender, science, and glaciers – particularly related to epistemological questions about the production of glaciological knowledge – remain understudied.
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1 week ago | 
stevehayward.substack.com | Steven Hayward
Back in the ‘aughts, Michael Ledeen’s office at AEI was on the same floor as mine, and although there was a shortcut from the elevator through a backdoor to his office, he invariably took the main entrance to the floor and walked the perimeter, often pausing at my door to say “Happy Tuesday!” or whatever day it happened to be.
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2 weeks ago | 
stevehayward.substack.com | Steven Hayward
I wonder if we will ever find a smoking gun email, memorandum, or notes from a meeting of senior White House staff openly discussing the need to keep cabinet members away from President Biden for fear of prompting the cabinet to trigger the 25th Amendment. It might not rise to the level of a crime, but it would be the greatest scandal and cover up of all American presidential history. If ever there was a case for invoking the 25th Amendment, Biden was it.
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2 weeks ago | 
stevehayward.substack.com | Steven Hayward
I’m back with the usual twin-bill podcast weekend, first with Ricochet, where we get Henry Olsen to bring us up to date on dramatic political trends in Europe right now that our media isn’t covering very well, in between his non-stop pop culture references that run from Dirty Harry to Lord of the Rings. (This is what happens when we give Rob Long another week off. . .)Listen right here, or at the link above:Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.