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☆ ‘A Death in Malta’ Review: Lost in a Sea of Corruption
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Tunku Varadarajan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Daphne Caruana Galizia and family. Photo: Paul Caruana GaliziaImagine the corrupt Tammany Hall of old reborn in a sovereign state in postwar Europe—a tiny archipelago, no more, in the southern Mediterranean. Meet murky little Malta, democratic Europe’s notable outlier—not just geographically and linguistically (having the only Semitic official language in the EU) but morally and ethically. And its rule of law, rickety at best, is shockingly derelict for an EU country. This isn’t just the judgment of fastidious outsiders, predisposed to look askance at Malta.

Persons: Daphne Caruana Galizia, Paul Caruana Galizia, Muammar Gaddafi, rickety, Labour Party — Organizations: Tammany Hall, European Union, Labour Party Locations: Europe, Britain, Libyan, Soviet, Malta, EU, Maltese, “

☆ Title IX and the Assault on Hillsdale College
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Tunku Varadarajan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Michigan Tech has come out on top and Harvard at the bottom in the largest-ever survey looking into the state of free speech on America's college campuses. Most elite colleges, including Penn and Yale, trail larger state schools with more working-class students. Images: Shutterstock/FIRE Composite: Mark KellyHillsdale, Mich.Embedded in a civil lawsuit against Hillsdale College is an assault on the fabric of this small, private Christian school founded in 1844. The lawsuit, brought by two undergraduate women who allege that they were raped two years ago by male Hillsdale students of their acquaintance, alleges not only that the college was negligent in handling their complaints, but also that it failed to afford them the protection to which they were entitled under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

Persons: Mark Kelly Hillsdale Organizations: Michigan Tech, Harvard, Penn, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale Locations: Yale, Mich

☆ ‘An American Girl in India’ Review: A Country Stirs a Young Heart
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Tunku Varadarajan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo: Alamy Stock PhotoSix weeks into her first visit, Wendy Doniger realized that “it is not necessary to love everything about India in order to love India.” A precocious judge of herself and her surroundings, Ms. Doniger was only 22, just out of Radcliffe College, and had traveled to Calcutta to study Bengali and Sanskrit. The year was 1963, and the India of that time was a “happy and innocent” place. It had not yet been “darkened,” Ms. Doniger writes in “An American Girl in India,” by the rise of a “jingoistic and repressive Hindu theocracy.”

Persons: Wendy Doniger, ”, Doniger, Ms Organizations: Radcliffe College Locations: India, Calcutta, “, American

☆ ‘Oppenheimer,’ the Bhagavad-Gita and India’s Outrage
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Tunku Varadarajan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

With streaming disrupting the economics of the TV and film industries, it doesn’t help to alienate your audience with political posturing like Disney has with its refashioning of classic fairy tales including the upcoming 'Snow White.' Images: Disney/Shutterstock/Bloomberg News/Getty Images for CAA Composite: Mark KellyThe debate about “Oppenheimer” has veered between fascination for a past when men wore linen suits to build a bomb and fear for a future in which the world is nuked to a crisp. The debate in the West—and, notably, Japan—has been civilized for our bad-tempered times, with historians, philosophers and “fact checkers” chewing intently on the film’s abundant fodder. Only in India has the movie sparked outraged dissent, with calls by officials from its Hindu nationalist government for it to be censored.

Persons: Mark Kelly, “ Oppenheimer ”, Japan — Organizations: Disney, Bloomberg, CAA Locations: Japan, India

☆ Middlebury’s Scapegoat for Eugenics
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Tunku Varadarajan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ ‘Not So Black and White’ Review: Kenan Malik’s Universalist Vision
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Tunku Varadarajan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Kenan Malik. Photo: Tom TrevattRacism drew Kenan Malik to politics in 1970s Britain, where “Paki-bashing”—the gleeful term used by white racists to describe their assaults on immigrants from Pakistan and India—was “a national sport.” Self-defense became second nature to the British-Indian schoolboy, who organized street patrols to protect his kinfolk in Manchester. “By the time I was a teenager,” he writes, “it was difficult to think of many days when I wasn’t in a fight with racists.”

Persons: Kenan Malik, Tom Trevatt, “, ”, India — Organizations: Indian, “ Locations: Britain, Pakistan, India, Manchester

☆ Moms for Liberty: ‘We Do Not Co-Parent With the Government’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Tunku Varadarajan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ American Wokeness Invades Britain’s Schools
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Tunku Varadarajan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Henry Kissinger Surveys the World as He Turns 100
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( Tunku Varadarajan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Montana Kids Claim a Right Not to Worry About the Weather
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Tunku Varadarajan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Little Lithuania Stands Tall Against Russia and China
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Tunku Varadarajan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Wonder Land: China, Russia and Iran are turning the Ukraine conflict into a test that the autocratic alliance believes the West is going to fail. Images: AP/Getty Images/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyLithuania is a Baltic country of just under 2.8 million people, a million fewer than live in the city of Los Angeles. It won its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and existed for the next three decades on the margins of international attention, patronized in the European Union (which it joined in 2004) by heavyweights like France and Germany. The war in Ukraine changed all that, redrawing the moral and diplomatic map of Europe in significant ways. In doing so, they’ve earned the wrath of Russia, which they regard as proof of a moral duty well done.

☆ DEI at Law Schools Could Bring Down America
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Tunku Varadarajan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Emission Cuts Will Fail to Stop Climate Change. What to Do Then?
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( Tunku Varadarajan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Bellevue, Wash. Sometimes it takes a visionary to throw cold water on a seemingly revolutionary development. When scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved a breakthrough in December—producing more energy in a fusion reaction than they used to ignite it—the Biden administration hyped the experiment as a quantum leap for its green agenda. “This milestone,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm boasted, “moves us one significant step closer to the possibility of zero-carbon abundant fusion energy powering our society.”

☆ Gen Z: Coddled, Anxious or Brave to Seek Help?
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-08 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Jonathan Haidt says that the young “wish they had childhoods more like those of their parents, in which they could play outside and have adventures with their friends” (Weekend Interview by Tunku Varadarajan, Dec. 31). So, let me ask: Just who exactly is preventing these coddled, anxiety-ridden Gen Z-ers from doing exactly that? My advice is to put your phones down and play in the dirt for a while. You might learn something. Steven Morris

☆ The pay gap will get worse for Gen Z women because they're 'so anxious,' an NYU professor says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Gen Z is facing a "national crisis," according to social psychologist and NYU professor Jonathan Haidt. Haidt told the Wall Street Journal that Gen Z women are going to be less successful than Gen Z men. That's partly because many Gen Z women are facing mental health challenges like anxiety. As Gen Z enters the workforce, the problem could get even worse. "Gen Z women, because they're so anxious, are going to be less successful than Gen Z men," he said.

☆ Social media created a generation of 'weakened kids' threatening American culture and capitalism, NYU business school professor says in WSJ op-ed
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-02 | by ( Madeline Stone | Gloria Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A recent WSJ op-ed argued that Gen Z is a generation of "weakened kids." Haidt said that social media and a culture of victimhood are to blame for Gen Z's state. Haidt pointed to high rates of anxiety and depression among young people and said that a "performative" social media culture was to blame. Gen Z, typically defined as those born between 1997 and 2012, live in "defend mode," Haidt said. The concern about giving feedback to Gen Z workers is occurring just as social media promotes an organizational culture of fear and could have larger knock-on effects, Haidt said.

☆ Jonathan Haidt on the ‘National Crisis’ of Gen Z
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( Tunku Varadarajan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

New YorkThe phrase “generation gap” became popular in the late 1960s, as baby boomers were coming of age. To hear social psychologist Jonathan Haidt tell it, today’s generation gap has widened into a chasm. “We have a whole generation that’s doing terribly,” he says in an interview at his professorial office, book-lined and hushed, at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He calls it a “national crisis.”

☆ The U.S. Resists Spiking the Soccer Ball
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Tunku Varadarajan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Team USA knocked Iran out of soccer’s World Cup on Tuesday, and Americans have reacted like gracious winners. Americans have preferred to dwell on the boyish heroics of Team USA, average age 24. The chivalry on display from the American public is derived in part from the wholesomeness of the players. And their diversity is organic, achieved by excellence on the ball, not by legal design. Among its best players is Timothy Weah , the New York-born son of Liberia’s President George Weah .

☆ New York Democrats Help GOP to a Congressional Majority
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Tunku Varadarajan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Republican Party has eked out a slender House majority, likely 222-213, four members more than are needed for control. The GOP should direct its gratitude to Misha Tseytlin , a soft-spoken Chicago lawyer who helped engineer the margin of victory in an unlikely place—New York state. Kathy Hochul approved a gerrymandered electoral map drawn by Albany Democrats that could have handed them victory in as many as 22 of the Empire State’s 26 districts. Mr. Tseytlin, 41, filed suit the same day, arguing that the map violated a 2014 constitutional amendment against gerrymandering that had been championed by, among others, the late former New York City Mayor Ed Koch , a Democrat. The state Senate at the time was under Republican control, the Assembly was Democratic, and Democrat Andrew Cuomo was governor.

☆ Lee Zeldin Visits Kathy Hochul Country
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Tunku Varadarajan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Kenmore, N.Y. This village of 15,000 in Erie County, immediately north of Buffalo, lies squarely in Kathy Hochul country. New York’s Democratic governor was born in Buffalo and represented the area in Congress before becoming lieutenant governor in 2013. A young Republican Party worker tells me that the Democrats have “a 2-to-1 enrollment advantage” in Kenmore, but we’re standing in a hall packed with supporters of Rep. Lee Zeldin , Ms. Hochul’s Republican challenger, who hails from Long Island’s Suffolk County, more than 450 miles away. Most statewide polls show Ms. Hochul, once a prohibitive favorite, leading only by single digits.

☆ The Man Who Said Ukraine Would Win
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Tunku Varadarajan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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