A new study reveals that roughly nine in ten students fake leftist views to please their professors or their peers. Between 2023 and 2025, Northwestern University psychology researchers Forest Romm and Kevin Waldman interviewed roughly 1,500 undergraduates at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan, two of the most prestigious universities in the country. They asked themselves this overarching question: “What happens to identity formation when belief is replaced by adherence to orthodoxy?” In order to test their question, they asked the students if they had ever pretended to hold more progressive views than they truly endorsed to succeed socially or academically. “An astounding 88 percent said yes,” they wrote in The Hill. They continued: Seventy-eight percent of students told us they self-censor on their beliefs surrounding gender identity; 72 percent on politics; 68 percent on family values. More than 80 percent said they had submitted classwork that misrepresented their views in order to align with professors. Perhaps most telling: 77 percent said they disagreed with the idea that gender identity should override biological sex in such domains as sports, healthcare, or public data — but would never voice that disagreement aloud. “We do not fault students for perpetuating a climate that is hostile to intellectual integrity,” the researchers opined. “We fault the faculty, administrators, and institutional leaders who built a system that rewards moral theater while punishing inquiry.  In shielding students from discomfort, they have also shielded them from discovery. The result is a generation confident in self-righteousness, but uncertain in self.” As far back as 2018, an article published by the National Association of Scholars found that roughly 40% of colleges across the United States did not have a single professor identifying as a Republican. This bias toward the Left was illuminated by Mitchell Langbert, an associate professor of business at Brooklyn College, who wrote, “The political registration of full-time, Ph.D.-holding professors in top-tier liberal arts colleges is overwhelmingly Democratic. Indeed, faculty political affiliations at 39 percent of the colleges in my sample are Republican free—having zero Republicans.” Langbert added that the remaining 61% are “absurdly skewed against Republican affiliation.” He noted that 78.2% of the academic departments that he sampled had either zero Republicans, or “so few as to make no difference.” Between February 2017 and September 2017, Langbert sampled 8,688 tenure-track professors with PhDs from 51 of the 66 top-ranked liberal arts colleges in the U.S. News 2017 report. Of those 8,688 professors, 5,197 (59.8%) were registered as either Republican or Democrat. He wrote, “The mean Democratic-to-Republican ratio (D:R) across the sample is 10.4:1, but because of an anomaly in the definition of what constitutes a liberal arts college in the U.S. News survey, I include two military colleges, West Point and Annapolis. If these are excluded, the D:R ratio is a whopping 12.7:1.” Langbert pointed out that in response to the widespread bias displayed at universities, over 1,000 professors and graduate students had started Heterodox Academy, an organization committed to increasing “viewpoint diversity” in higher education. There were exceptions to the pervasive prejudice against conservatism at colleges and universities, but notably, they were primarily either religious or military colleges. Thomas Aquinas had 33 full-time faculty; all were Republican. West Point and Annapolis were more balanced than most universities; they had D:R ratios of 1.3:1 and 2.3:1. Claremont McKenna and Kenyon colleges also featured more viewpoint diversity.

President Donald Trump took control of Washington, D.C.’s, police force on Monday, exercising his presidential powers over the nation’s capital to crack down on rampant violent crime. The federal takeover of D.C.’s law enforcement comes in the wake of a brutal assault on a 19-year-old former Department of Government Efficiency worker earlier this month during an attempted carjacking. “I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse,” Trump said Monday. “This is Liberation Day in D.C. and we’re going to take our capital back.” On Monday, Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, called Trump’s takeover of the city “unsettling and unprecedented” and an “authoritarian push.” But this is not the first time the federal government has come to the troubled city’s rescue. In the 1990s, Washington, D.C., was drowning in debt because of a recession and the crack epidemic, among other issues. It had a $722 million deficit, and Wall Street had dropped the city to “junk” bond status, meaning loaning to D.C. was risky. In April 1995, Congress established the District of Columbia Financial Control Board, which took over the city’s finances until 2001. During most of that period, the mayor of D.C. was Marion Barry, who was reelected after getting out of federal prison following his arrest for smoking crack cocaine in an FBI sting operation. The federal control board severely curtailed Barry’s power and quickly balanced D.C.’s budget, keeping it balanced for five years before relinquishing control. During those years, the board mainly sought to clear out the rot of mismanagement primarily caused by corrupt local D.C. politics, such as firing the public school superintendent and installing a new one. The federal board also asserted broad authority over the police department, which had fallen into chaos — investigations found drug money sitting around in boxes, an unguarded gun warehouse, and more than 135 bungled homicide cases. Crime dropped sharply after the federal control board took political control of D.C.’s police department — violent crime sank 18% during the first year in 1997. By 2000, violent crime in D.C. had plummeted a whopping 40%, coinciding with a broader nationwide drop in crime, although the control board’s efforts were credited for much of the improvement. “There was massive, positive, healthy, productive change. We went from being a joke to having the best equipment, having the best uniforms, massive policy changes for the better,” Joshua Ederheimer, a professor and 23-year veteran of D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department, told The National Desk this week. “I can’t see how anyone can say that the federal takeover of the police department was bad because it transformed the agency,” Ederheimer said. Public safety is also the reason for Trump’s takeover this week, and the D.C. police union is desperate for federal help. “We completely agree with the president here that crime in the district is out of control, and something needs to be done about it,” D.C. Police Union Chairman Greggory Pemberton said over the weekend on Fox Business. The police union head cautioned that he believes police commanders are “ordered from the top” to make sure D.C. crime statistics do not look bad. “This concept that crime is down is really an old trope,” Pemberton said. “They’re using the statistics in a way that makes it appear that crime is going down, but our rank and file officers know that we’re going call to call to call for armed carjackings, stabbings, robberies, shootings, homicides, and the crime isn’t going anywhere.” “We welcome the assistance, and whether that’s federal agents or the National Guard we’ll use it, we’ll do whatever we can to get bad guys off the streets and try to keep citizens of the District safe,” Pemberton said. The police union boss noted that federal agents assisting law enforcement is likely only a temporary fix. The D.C. police force is authorized for 4,000 officers but currently has only 3,180, Pemberton noted, saying this is the “main reason” the force is struggling to keep the streets safe. Officers are logging two million hours of overtime a year, he said. Pemberton said he hopes federal authorities will see how bad the situation has become. On Tuesday, the city’s police chief, Pamela Smith, stood alongside Bowser and emphasized working together, saying the “enhanced presence” of federal agents would “make our city even better.” About 850 federal agents deployed in D.C. arrested 23 people, including murder suspects, and seized six illegal guns on Monday, the first day of the takeover, the White House said.

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Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams told Politico on Thursday that he is not planning to drop his mayoral bid despite facing an uphill battle against socialist frontrunner Zohran Mamdani. Recent polling has shown Adams trailing behind Democratic nominee Mamdani, disgraced former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa. Still, […]

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