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View More NewsThe Reporters Committee is condemning both a Louisiana judge’s decision to eject the press and public from his courtroom and the handcuffing of a reporter and his attorney who tried to object to the unconstitutional closure. The incident occurred on July 2, 2026, in Judge Leon Roche’s Orleans parish courtroom, where a grand jury was set to return an indictment of the state’s attorney general. In an August 5 letter to Chief Judge Juana Marine-Lombard of the Orleans Criminal District Court, Reporters Committee Louisiana-based attorney Virginia Hamrick expressed concern about these actions, which Hamrick argued “constituted an egregious affront to…
“Dogma,” Albert Einstein told an audience at the Sorbonne in 1929, “is the enemy of progress.” Just kidding—it’s what ChatGPT whispered in the ear of the rector of my university at the start of this academic year after she decided to outsource her inaugural address to AI. The speech she delivered was a string of grammatically impeccable platitudes garnished with four quotations, three of which turned out to be hallucinations—the kind of false erudition that academics like to flaunt. The fourth quotation was real, but it was a cringeworthy piece of self-flattery lifted from an obscure 1946 speech: “There are…
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The Cambridge fiasco has made modern DEI look laughable, but it is no joke. Widespread damage has been inflicted by politically correct ideas about race over the years, and one of the first and worst casualties was academic teaching and research about human intelligence. The stigmatisation of this topic has increased lately, and the implications for scientific inquiry are grave. As far as I candetermine, as of 2025, not a single major college or university psychology department in the United States offers such a dedicated course. How did this happen to a key topic in psychology?The marginalisation of intelligence research…
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President Mark Brown recently welcomed incoming classes to Tuskegee University by announcing a new campus dress code.The new code says students must arrive on campus with “a…