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A protest against the British government’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, outside the Home Office, in central London, in December.
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On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) said that President Joe Biden can shut down the border unilaterally and should by doing what President Obama did with Title 8. After referencing Biden saying that the administration
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Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, dancing onstage during a delivery event for Tesla’s China-made Model 3 cars in Shanghai in 2020.
Elon Musk dancing in 2020 as his company, Tesla, unveiled the first cars made at its factory in Shanghai.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying a military missile tracking system, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leads a Conservative Party that is splintered into multiple rivalrous factions, with some lawmakers seemingly more intent on plotting their own futures than on uniting the party for a coming election against the opposition Labour Party.
It would be one thing if Gay’s commitment to free speech were the real deal. As it is, anyone with a sense of institutional memory knows that Gay doesn’t believe a word she said in Washington.
Last week, Harvard President Claudine Gay drew national outrage when she and two other elite university presidents told a congressional committee that calls for a genocide of the Jews wouldn’t necessarily violate campus rules against harassment. Yet Gay hasn’t been without her defenders, who insist that her stance is about protecting free speech. As Gay herself said in her opening remarks to the lawmakers, “I have sought to confront hate while preserving free expression…. The free exchange of ideas is the foundation upon which Harvard is built.”
A mere two days after Gay mouthed these words, however, Harvard canceled a student event featuring two Democratic lawmakers—one of whom had been critical of Gay’s testimony.
On the afternoon of Friday, December 8, Harvard’s John Adams Society, a conservative-leaning student group, was to host a discussion on the future of U.S.–China relations and their ramifications for American industrial policy, featuring Reps. Jake Auchincloss of Massachusetts and Ro Khanna of California. The planned event was cosponsored by American Affairs, the heterodox policy journal edited by Julius Krein (and where—full disclosure—I’ve published a single piece).
A month earlier, on November 6, David Vega, a current student affiliated with the John Adams Society, booked a room through the proper channels and received an email from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences confirming the room and the event. “YOUR ROOM HAS BEEN CONFIRMED,” read the confirmation email, which I’ve reviewed. The administration even offered audiovisual assistance and day-of contact information; everything seemed to be going swimmingly.
As the days went by, various Harvard authorities helped the organizers and congressional staff through the byzantine campus process. When Auchincloss’s chief of staff reached out to the Harvard events team to discuss security, Christine Haverty, director of events management, replied, “Thank you! For this, you would work with the team planning the event and Harvard University Police,” adding: “They are wonderful!” On Nov. 27, Haverty introduced the congressional team to Sgt. Andy Gilbert of Harvard Police to coordinate security. A few days later, Harvard Police informed the organizers and the congressional team, “We’d like to let you know that [Harvard Police] is still in the planning stages for this event, and we will be coordinating a planning meeting in the coming days.”
The planning process continued. There were no ominous signs. As recently as December 5, Harvard confirmed the event as scheduled and set to go forward. Then, that same day, Gay gave her Washington testimony—you know, the one where she insisted the sacred principle of free speech protects even extreme anti-Jewish animus, depending on the context. Two days later, on December 7, the student organizer received an email informing him that the event was canceled. JonRobert Bagley, the associate director for student organizations, explained that the event had been canceled owing to the fact that it was cosponsored by a non-Harvard entity, American Affairs. (Krein, the journal’s editor, is an alumnus, for what it’s worth.)
What happened between December 5 and December 7? Gay’s congressional testimony took place on December 5. Auchincloss published a statement on December 6 mocking her for her supposed commitment to free speech. “Harvard ranks last out of 248 universities for support of free speech,” Auchincloss said. “But when it comes to denouncing anti-Semitism, suddenly the university has anxieties about the First Amendment. It rings hollow.” On December 7, the event was canceled.
It would be one thing if Gay’s commitment to free speech were the real deal. As it is, anyone with a sense of institutional memory knows that Gay doesn’t believe a word she said in Washington. Heck, you don’t even need institutional memory: Just behold her institution’s conduct with respect to a member of Congress who dared criticize her.
A Harvard spokesman claimed that the university has “no record of an event registration request,” notwithstanding the registration confirmation reviewed by The American Conservative and dozens of back-and-forth emails between organizers and Harvard staff, all predicated upon the fact that the event is registered and moving forward.
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Richard Paul Fink, center in dark suit, as Henry Kissinger in “Nixon in China” at the Metropolitan Opera in 2011.
Migrants are brought ashore after being picked up in the English Channel last week in Dover, England.
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State of the Union: The Conservative Partnership Institute’s new initiative will provide mentorship to the upcoming conservative generation.
The Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) hosted their inaugural Bellator Awards Gala on November 14 at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C.
The gala boasted a variety of notable speakers and impressive awardees, all equally committed to bolstering the conservative movement in America—especially within the offices of Capitol Hill. CPI, along with their new initiative, the Conservative Partnership Academy (CPA), is confident that their institution will be on the front lines of defending conservative principles: Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania called CPI “the most consequential organization on the hill.”
Rebecca Dunn, a leading philanthropist who, along with her husband, Bill Dunn, helped launch CPA, addressed the crowd, asserting that “freedom will not be preserved without warriors”—one of the recurring nods to the gala’s name inspiration, “bellator,” which means “warrior” in Latin. She stressed how each person in the room has the ability to serve as a warrior for the conservative cause.
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, the gala’s keynote speaker, detailed his history with and passion for CPI and its goals. He praised the future generation of conservatives CPI has set out to find, saying:
As I look around at the conservative warriors in this room, the next generation is here. The next Mark Meadows is here, the next Scott Perry is here, the next Ed Corrigan is here, the next Mollie Hemingway is here…. We could not do what we do without being surrounded by principled warriors who love America.
The Bellator Awards Gala provided an environment in which conservative “warriors” could come together and begin planning for the future of the movement. A lot still remains to be seen: CPI’s vision of “Patriot Row,” a campus for conservative institutions, has yet to be fully realized, and the 2024 fellowship cycle has yet to begin. But if up-and-coming conservatives adhere to the mission of CPI and its benefactors, we may rightly look forward to the conservative movement of tomorrow.
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A boat carrying migrants entering English waters after being escorted by French vessels in August.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain at a cabinet meeting inside 10 Downing Street on Tuesday.
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