What’s Up at Bryn Mawr?
Brenna Levitin (@brennalevitin) is a junior at Bryn Mawr College (annual tuition $45,540), an elite women’s college in Philadelphia with an undergraduate enrollment of fewer than 1,500 students. Ms. Levitin describes herself as a “radical feminist” and has been working on a very special project at Bryn Mawr: Since May, Brenna Levitin, the Greenfield Digital […]
Headlines on the Road to Hell
Brian Hawkins, 44, was a teacher and coach at Scecina High School in Indiana. Last month, police began investigating him. On Sept. 23, shortly after police searched his home, Hawkins died when his car rammed head-on into a bridge abutment: Indiana State Police detectives are still sorting through evidence recovered from the home of a […]
‘Magnet School,’ IYKWIMAITYD
Brooklyn Technical High School is a “magnet school” where the students include New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s son Dante. Sean Shaynak, 44, was a popular math and physics teacher at Brooklyn Tech. Shaynak was very, very popular. Not in a good way: A New York City public school math teacher accused of having sex […]
Stephen Collins Is Still Alive
There was a rumor last night that actor Stephen Collins committed suicide. The rumor proved to be false, but you can understand why there were rumors. His estranged wife secretly recorded Collins confessing to having molested at least three young girls: Collins — who is in the middle of a nasty, prolonged divorce with actress […]
The Election Thing
Let me say, to begin with, that elections matter. From 2009 (the Doug Hoffman campaign in NY-23) through 2012, nobody argued more strenuously than I did about the importance of winning elections, and nobody covered campaigns with the kind of gonzo fanaticism that I brought to the gig. In the past couple of years, however, […]
Why California’s ‘Affirmative Consent’ Law Violates Basic Constitutional Rights
Sexual assault is a crime. RapeĀ is not a school disciplinary infraction, and the attempt by universities to set up a pseudo-judicial system to deal with accusations of sexual assault was always a dubious endeavor. What college administrators have done, in their effort to appease feminists, is to establish phony “courts” where people can be “convicted” […]
Feminist Foreign Policy
Feminists specialize in promoting misery and insanity in domestic life, but they also occasionally stray into international affairs: Journalist and author Naomi Wolf suggested Saturday that videos of Islamic State militants beheading American and British hostages may have been staged. The news site Vox flagged a series of Facebook posts in which Wolf questioned the […]
Simone de Beauvoir, Pervert
One of the things they don’t teach in Women’s Studies classes is that pioneering feminist author Simone de Beauvoir was a pervert who was fired from a teaching job for seducing teenage girls: In 1943, Simone de Beauvoir was fired for behavior leading to the corruption of a minor. Once again, the apologists of de […]
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