Shockingly Underreported News and Commentary for the Week of 30 August

This is the fifth post in the ongoing weekly feature that highlights news and commentary on important geopolitical, cultural, and economic issues that the Democrat-media complex buries because they expose the hypocrisies associated with the continuing Marxist-Democrat narrative. Everything is properly sourced and linked for follow-up reading, whether from legacy media, independent sources, or social media.

Here we go!

‘SUPER WOKE’: Harvard relies on the ‘MEMORY OF A REPUTATION,’ journalist says

New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz discusses college costs surpassing $100,000 a year at 15 schools, projected enrollment declines and the two colleges she says are off-limits for her children on ‘Varney & Co.’ #foxbusiness #varney 0:07 — COLLEGE COSTS SOAR PAST $100,000 A YEAR 0:34 — COLLEGES FACE BACKLASH OVER DEI SPENDING 1:15 — …

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The Case for a “Choice Election” in 2026: Not a referendum on the Republican Party

The Democrat Party and their legacy media allies are framing the 2026 midterms as a referendum on President Trump and Republican governance in Congress, leveraging historical midterm dynamics where the president’s party often loses seats. Democratic leaders (e.g., Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash, the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee chairman) explicitly call for making it a referendum on “Trump’s one big beautiful bill and agenda.” Their messaging focuses on affordability, health care costs, farm/economic impacts from policies, and immigration enforcement effects in key districts. They are targeting ostensibly vulnerable GOP seats in Trump-won areas, expanding maps and emphasizing “MAGA extremism” or unfulfilled promises.

The Failed Religion Masquerading as Scholarship: And Why It’s Time to Sweep This Nonsense Into the Trash Bin of History

Every few years, America picks up some shiny new bad idea, polishes it with jargon, markets it with hashtags, and forces the rest of us to pretend it’s brilliant. Today, the reigning champion of American intellectual embarrassment is something called Critical Theory

Did Penn actually make a change, or are they just being more subtle about it?

The Philadelphia Inquirer’s liberal columnists will be aghast, upset, perhaps even spittle-flecking outraged at this, but my first reaction was: is the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine — named after a Jooooo, so I’m surprised that Penn’s pro-Hamas cabal hasn’t picketed it — really ending it’s “diversity, equity, and inclusion” programs, or is …

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Philadelphia Inquirer Columnist Is All Kinds of Sadz That Target Is Dumping DEI

Philadelphia Inquirer, Building

As I look at thinning the herd on some of my subscriptions, I note that I am paying more for The Philadelphia Inquirer than for The New York Times and The Washington Post, both of which are better newspapers. But, not only am I more connected to the City of Brotherly Love, the Inky does provide some unrivaled entertainment!