An Illiberal Education
What to know: Anti-Semitism at Columbia University is so high right now that classes have gone online, and officials are telling Jewish students to leave campus—they’re not safe there anymore. And protests at Yale have turned violent, sending one Jewish student to the hospital.
The TPPF take: Wokeness—in the form of diversity, equity and inclusion offices and initiatives—has played a huge role in incubating campus violence and radicalism.
“DEI offices and personnel have been colonizing college campuses for years,” says TPPF’s Sherry Sylvester. “Inclusion, the third component, is meant to ensure that everyone on campus feels welcome and safe. While this sounds unobjectionable, celebration and support for Hamas’ actions reveals that inclusion is selectively applied—specifically, if you’re Jewish, inclusion is not for you.”
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End the ETJ
What to know: Last week, the Houston Chronicle noted the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s desire “to see ETJs abolished completely.” Such an abolishment might be accomplished through either the legislature or the courts.
The TPPF take: The ETJ concept violates the Texas Constitution’s guarantee of a republican form of government.
“Under current law, ETJ residents are governed by people they didn’t elect nor do they have the ability to influence politically. That’s not just wrong, it’s unconstitutional,” says TPPF’s James Quintero. “Given that policymakers fully ended forced annexation in 2019, there is no longer any reason or excuse to continue on with ETJs.”
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Melting Down
What to know: The sales of Teslas and other electric vehicles continue to plummet.
The TPPF take: Automakers can’t sell what consumers don’t want.
“The Biden administration’s stringent fuel economy standards and regulatory manipulations are driving American automakers toward bankruptcy and adding thousands of dollars to the cost of every gasoline vehicle,” says TPPF’s Brent Bennett. “Rolling back these subsidies and burdensome regulations would save consumers money and stop the auto industry from falling off a financial cliff.”
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