Day: July 4, 2025

How This University’s Equity Agenda Is Upending a Small California Town

Arcata is a small town lying behind the Redwood Curtain of Northern California, about two hundred and fifty miles north of San Francisco. It was a place where diversity already existed, yet nobody had to talk about it. Much of this diversity was due to the location of Humboldt State University, a four-year state school […]

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Top NSF Officials Used Duplicate Research to Boost Their Careers

In a recent article, I described how Arizona State University (ASU) refused to investigate plagiarism by its administrator, Sethuraman Panchanathan, while he was serving as director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Panchanathan later resigned unexpectedly and returned to ASU—just in time for the university to sue the NSF to preserve its high rate of […]

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Feds Froze the Funds—Now UPenn Freezes Thomas’s Records

More than two years after Lia Thomas became the first male athlete to win an NCAA all-women’s swimming title, the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) has officially admitted its faults and will strip Thomas—born William Thomas—of those titles, return accolades to the rightful female athletes, and issue a public apology. UPenn reached a resolution agreement with […]

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July 4th Was the World’s Revolution. The Next One Starts Here.

Two hundred forty-nine years ago, a determined band of colonists didn’t just declare independence—they dismantled the old world order. They rejected the centuries-old belief that power comes from bloodlines, conquest, or divine right, and proposed something audacious: that legitimacy flows from the governed, not the governor. That moment was not merely the birth of America—it […]

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