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Scott Shay donated to Northwestern University every year after earning his undergraduate degree in 1979. He stopped in 2020 after researching a book on antisemitic conspiracy theories on campus. The former chairman of Signature Bank, he now donates to the Hillel and Chabad organizations at the university instead. After the Hamas attacks, other donors have reached out to him saying they are reconsidering their gifts. “I’ve heard from four people within the last hour,” Shay said Friday.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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No sympathies. For two generations, they donated to colleges that spread hate, division and anti-gentile and anti-asian racism, while demanding that a special, favorable category for ‘israel supporter’ be carved out just for them. And now, like Casablanca, they are “shocked!” that 40 years of funding anti-white hatred has not exempted them from the ‘colonizer’ label. Like, sorry rich pronoun liberal, what did you expect? Did you really think that decades of anti-white indoctrination at college would not ultimately consume you too? These rich donors fed and reared the very system of hate that is now uncaged and looking to… Read more »
It isn’t only elite universities. It’s educational institutions from kindergarten to post graduate programs. Young people have been indoctrinated against the values on which this nation was founded.
I wish people could see what’s happening to our most important institutions, but many don’t. They believe we are the ones making a to-do about nothing. Sometimes, I question my own thinking on these issues. These past two weeks have been a real eye-opener for my very liberal Jewish friends and I’m beginning to feel hopeful now that they too are paying attention.