Foreign governments are not allowed to own our radio and TV stations for fear they might be used for anti-American propaganda and influence. The Congress just banned TikTok for the same reason.
Why then do we allow foreign governments to give money to our universities, funds…
According to the DOE, American universities and colleges have received $19 billion in foreign donations with no recorded dates of receipt as of April 6, 2023.
Since 1981, American colleges and universities have disclosed $40.2 billion in foreign funding, with $1.1 billion in…
The presidents of
@Harvard
,
@MIT
, and
@Penn
were all asked the following question under oath at today’s congressional hearing on antisemitism:
Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?
The…
In light of today’s news, I thought I would try to take a step back and provide perspective on what this is really all about.
I first became concerned about
@Harvard
when 34 Harvard student organizations, early on the morning of October 8th before Israel had taken any military…
Please read the below letter. I find the
@FBI
agents’ message irrefutable and extremely concerning.
It is shocking that
@POTUS
is fighting Texas’ attempt to protect our southern border.
Why aren’t Federal agents protecting our border rather than fighting to keep the border…
I thought
@elonmusk
’s interview with
@andrewrsorkin
was one of the great interviews ever. Musk is a free speech absolutist which I respect. I think he is entirely correct that he and
@X
are treated unfairly and inconsistently by advertisers.
@tiktok_us
@instagram
@facebook
and…
@BillAckman
@dafrankel
@BillAckman
I would like to hear your thoughts on the recent "GFY" fiasco, especially considering that your hedge fund invested in Twitter (X). I'm honestly curious to know your perspective, as I look up to you.
I have been asked by a number of CEOs if
@harvard
would release a list of the members of each of the Harvard organizations that have issued the letter assigning sole responsibility for Hamas’ heinous acts to Israel, so as to insure that none of us inadvertently hire any of their…
large number of harvard student organizations blaming israel solely for hamas terrorist attacks killing 700 civilians.
can’t imagine who would want to identify with such a group. harvard parents—talk to your educated kids about this.
My wife,
@NeriOxman
, was just contacted by Business Insider claiming that they have identified other plagiarism in her work including 15 examples in her dissertation where she did not cite Wikipedia as a source.
Business Insider told us that they are publishing their story…
Peter, if you claim what RFKjr is saying is “misinformation” I am offering you $100,000.00 to the charity of your choice if you’re willing to debate him on my show with no time limit.
Last night, no one at
@MIT
had a good night’s sleep.
Yesterday evening, shortly after I posted that we were launching a plagiarism review of all current MIT faculty, President Kornbluth, members of MIT’s administration, and its board, I am sure that an audible collective gasp…
WAPO reporter doubles down: You didn’t say that you condemn white supremacy though.
She immediately regrets it.
@VivekGRamaswamy
isn’t going to play the game.
Take a look at New Yorkers in 1930 after a decade of economic exuberance. There were no gyms, SoulCycles, yoga classes, or running shoes.
There were no diets, Ozempic, USDA pyramids or degrees in nutrition science.
Yet, look at how lean everyone is. There is no obesity.…
I learned from someone with first person knowledge of the
@Harvard
president search that the committee would not consider a candidate who did not meet the DEI office’s criteria.
The same was likely true for other elite universities doing searches at the same time, creating an…
Please see my letter today to
@Harvard
governing boards of directors:
December 10, 2023
Dear Members of the Harvard Governing Boards:
In her short tenure as President, Claudine Gay has done more damage to the reputation of Harvard University than any individual in our nearly…
Mark
@mcuban
,
That’s exactly what I thought until I did the work.
I encourage you to do the same and revert.
DEI is not about diversity, equity or inclusion. Trust me. I fell for the same trap you did.
Bill
Let me help you out and give you my thoughts on DEI
1. Diversity
Good businesses look where others don't, to find the employees that will put your business in the best possible position to succeed.
You may not agree, but I take it as a given that there are people of various…
Please see my below letter to the President of Harvard University sent today:
November 4, 2023
Dear President Gay,
I am writing this letter to you regretfully. Never did I think I would have to write a letter to the president of my alma mater about the impact of her actions…
The world will be able to judge the relative quality of the governance at
@Harvard
,
@Penn
, and
@MIT
by the comparative speed by which their boards fire their respective presidents.
For context, I am pro-science (it is sad to say that I have to declare this upfront) and our family foundation, the
@PershingSqFdn
, is a major funder ( ~$100m to date with more to come) of scientific research, but something has gone really wrong with science and our country when…
Some advice for students:
If an organization of which you are a member puts out a public statement you disagree with, you have a few choices.
You can:
Stay silent and have the entire world conclude that you stand by the statement.
Convince the other members of the group to…
I am pro-Palestinian. Some might be surprised by this due to my recent advocacy on
@X
for Israel, but you shouldn’t be.
I am anti-terrorist, not anti-Palestinian. It is not inconsistent to be pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian. And my pro-Palestinian viewpoint is not a new one. My…
I have heard from a source that is reliable but a step or two removed from the situation that the
@Harvard
Corporation has asked President Gay to resign and she has refused.
Gay has apparently said that if she is fired, she will sue. Gay has retained her own counsel.
I can’t…
.
@elonmusk
is not an antisemite. I agree with
@benshapiro
’s assessment of the situation.
It is remarkable how quickly the world stands ready to attack Musk for his shoot from the hip commentary.
Musk is not perfect, but the world is a vastly better place because of him.
This is a math class this morning at
@MIT
. This is the state of learning and ‘free speech’ at our top universities. It would not be happening without a failure leadership at MIT.
Imagine being a student who borrowed $250k to attend MIT or a professor who is trying to do…
Imagine the following:
You're a man who serves as Chairman of the Board of a large University who led the search for the recently hired president.
Your wife runs a non-profit in the DEI space. She is the only full-time employee of the organization, serving as Founder, CEO,…
It has been the case since as far as I can remember in business and in media that family was off limits, unless of course the family is directly involved in the business.
The code of the road was that you can attack the protagonist as much as you want, but not his wife and not…
Can anyone think of another situation in history where Americans were taken hostage by terrorists and our President acted as if this has not occurred.
I can’t think of one example in the last 181 days where
@POTUS
Biden has expressed concern for the American hostages that are…
In 2012,
@BarackObama
set a red line with Syria on the use of chemical weapons. A year later, Assad gassed and killed 1,400 non-combatants. We did nothing.
In 2014, Putin invaded Crimea. We did nothing.
In September 2021, we abandoned Afghanistan in a sloppy withdrawal…
I wouldn’t want to keep money in a bank that can’t access the SWIFT system. Once a bank can’t transfer or receive funds from other banks, its solvency can be at risk. If I were Russian, I would take my money out now. Bank runs could begin in Russia on Monday.
#StandWithUkraine
I guess
@MIT
Chairman Gorenberg did not like it when I outed him for apparent tax fraud using
@MIT
’s donor advised fund. By doing so, he put at risk MIT’s tax exempt status.
The mainstream media failed to report on the thread below. They might want to take a closer look now.…
An update on
@MIT
Chairman Gorenberg and his wife's non-profit, .
This evening an email was forwarded to me from a friend who is an MIT alum which was intended to clarify MIT's involvement in . The forwarded email said the…
Put aside any preconceived notions about
@RobertKennedyJr
and listen to this
@joerogan
podcast with an open mind. One of the most powerful and mind opening interviews that I have ever heard.
My uninformed impression of RFK pre-interview was of an…
Trump issues warning to pro-Hamas students:
“If you sympathize with jihadists then we don’t want you in our country… I will cancel student visas for Hamas sympathizers on college campuses… come 2025 we will find you and we will deport you.”
Five chilling minutes in which Harvard President Claudine Gay, admits that certain statements are anti-Semitic and even call for clear murder against Jews.
However, when she is confronted with these statements being made on campus during protests and…
Now I am a white supremacist apparently.
Am I also antisemitic because I suggested that
@MIT
’s Kornbluth should resign or be fired?
Am I anti-Christian because I said
@Penn
’s Magill should be fired?
Why must one be deemed a racist or white supremacist when one raises…
Enough is enough.
@Harvard
President Claudine Gay is a distinguished scholar and professor with decades of service in higher education. The recent attacks on her leadership are nothing more than political theatrics advancing a white supremacist agenda.
Yesterday,
@Harvard
was sued by a group of students due to pervasive antisemitism on campus.
The complaint is best described as devastating.
Based on the alleged facts which are consistent with what I have heard from students and faculty on campus, and what I have seen with my…
December 3, 2023
Dear President Gay,
Since my letter to you of November 4th to which you did not reply or even acknowledge, I have received substantial feedback and input from senior members of the Harvard faculty about a number of the issues I raised in my letter concerning…
Just got a call from the media asking if my Twitter account was hacked. That is, the reporter couldn’t conceive of the idea that I could believe that Kyle is innocent because I am not a right winger. Crazy.
When we give
@Ukraine
the support it needs to win the war, it serves to strongly deter other nuclear blackmailers in their territorial aggressions. Helping
@Ukraine
does not increase the probability of nuclear war, it reduces the risk of future nuclear conflagrations.
The
@nytimes
published a story today with the headline: "Bill Ackman's Campaign Against Harvard Followed Years of Resentment."
The premise of the story is false. I have held no resentment toward Harvard ever. And I have none now.
The story gives the impression that my…
How are these students not immediately suspended? How does this not violate
@Harvard
’s code of conduct for students? How would Harvard respond if the affected student were Black, Latino or LGBTQIA? How does this man remain Editor of the Harvard Law Review?
This is a really important and moving speech. Listen to all of it with your own ears, not through someone else’s depiction. Put aside any preconceived notions on Kennedy.
These are words that can help save our democracy and our country. I do not say this lightly. This will be…
For context on what is to come, ask yourself how the U.S. would respond if 2,500 Mexican terrorists invaded Texas, brutally killed 1,200 of our citizens including women, children and babies — raping decapitating and burning them alive — and kidnapped 150 more, including infants.
How would
@Columbia
respond if the students took over campus in support of the KKK and called for the genocide of other ethnic minorities?
Would
@Columbia
continue to support the demonstrations on the basis of a commitment to free speech or would the University’s code of conduct…
A fun fact:
Our lawyers used the Wayback Machine to check
@MIT
's plagiarism policy back when Neri wrote her thesis in 2009.
It turns out that MIT's academic integrity handbook did not require citation or even mention Wikipedia until 2013, four years after Neri wrote her…
The gov’t has about 48 hours to fix a-soon-to-be-irreversible mistake. By allowing
@SVB_Financial
to fail without protecting all depositors, the world has woken up to what an uninsured deposit is — an unsecured illiquid claim on a failed bank. Absent
@jpmorgan
@citi
or…
I find it difficult to believe that the
@Harvard
Corporation board could still be in unanimous support of President Gay.
They must now realize that they made a bad choice and that their continued support for President Gay is not just enormously damaging to Harvard, but it is…
I learned today that at least four or five other media companies rejected the plagiarism story before it was accepted by Business Insider.
Think about that. The story did not meet the standards for accuracy, evidence and/or ethics of the other media companies they approached.…
Last night, Neri and I watched several hours of .
#Kylerittenhouse
direct testimony and cross examination. We came away believing that
#Kyle
is telling the truth and that he acted in self defense. We found him to be a civic-minded patriot with a history of
"I should not be here today...I should be taking in...my senior year of college...I am because 36 hours ago, I, along with most of campus, sought refuge in our rooms as classmates and professors chanted proudly for the genocide of Jews. " -
@Penn
student Eyal Yakoby
Imagine being the President of the United States and waking up today…
You’re told that every single day for the last 3+ years, thousands of unknown, unvetted migrants have illegally crossed our border and are being released into the country.
Millions and millions of people in…
Putting aside whatever views one may have on transgenderism, why would you overshadow one of the holiest Christian days of the year to promote another ideology/movement of any kind?
Aren’t there already other days on the calendar acknowledging/celebrating transgenderism?
Why…
NEW: New York Governor Kathy Hochul has ordered that New York landmarks be lit up in transgender flag colors on Easter Sunday.
Hochul issued a proclamation declaring March 31, 2024 Transgender Day of Visibility.
The landmarks that will be lit up include Niagara falls, One…
Going after
@BillAckman
’s wife is one of the dumbest moves I’ve ever seen. MIT and Business Insider don’t understand the force of nature that’s about to come after them.
This guy literally beat out Brad Pitt competing for his wife. While you were losing sleep over not having…
Imagine that you were formerly a professor at a university, and you are an entrepreneur now.
One day, a company that you have no affiliation with (other than its CEO is your husband) gets an email from a reporter from Business Insider which says that they have found five…
@BillAckman
@NeriOxman
have you considered including every journalist at
@BusinessInsider
in this search for plagiarism?
should be pretty straightforward to do all of this with AI.
As Charlie Munger of blessed memory advised: “Invert, always invert,” i.e, turn a situation or a problem upside down to better understand and solve it.
So, let’s assume Presidents Gay, Kornbluth, and Magill were available, would any university in the world hire them as…
I tweeted that
@RobertKennedyJr
raised some important questions about vaccine safety and now I am being labeled a Qanon conspiracist by some and a member of the alt-right by others.
I have long believed that incentives drive all human behavior. This gives me reason to be open…
NEW:
@RobertKennedyJr
is seeing a new alignment in regards to his stances on vaccines from a wealthy influential executive on Wall Street: Bill Ackman
Our story on why Ackman is starting to align with some of Kennedy's views on vaccines and Wall St stunned
Imagine that you and your family borrowed the $360k it costs for four years at
@Columbia
plus interest at today’s rates.
Regardless of your religious or ethnic background, is this what you signed up for?
Private university mismanagement also begs the question as to why private…
At the
#CNNTownhall
last night,
@VivekGRamaswamy
gave the perfect answer when asked about his strategy to promote DEI in the public and private sectors
“Let it (diversity) not be the goal, but a byproduct of actually selecting the best person for the job”
Student loan forgiveness sounds great for borrowers overburdened with high interest rate debts they cannot repay. The problem is that the subsidy appears to go principally to more affluent families at the cost of burdening those who didn’t attend college or whose parents saved to…
Penn-Wharton: Biden's new student loan plan will cost taxpayers another $84B, bringing total to $559B.
The biggest winners are 750,000 people with 20 years in repayment.
Their average debt relief is $25,500+ and average household income is $312,000+.
I am not part of the gang of three, but I strongly believe that an open long-form debate on vaccines with you and
@RobertKennedyJr
moderated by
@joerogan
would enable the public to better understand these issues.
You have previously complained about the lack of air time devoted…
Compare and contrast last night’s Putin and
@POTUS
interviews.
Now consider that Biden is running for a new term that begins 11 months from now and lasts four years.
This script and plot line would not make it past the slush pile of a third-tier Hollywood agent.
We need to…
I totally agree.
A good friend’s home was burglarized this week. When the police arrived to investigate, they explained that there has been a massive increase in burglaries in town by Chilean gangs comprised of recently arrived illegal immigrants who are unable to work legally.…
Because I am raising concerns about the flood of unvetted illegal immigrants overwhelming American cities, the press will often characterize me as “anti-immigrant”.
As an immigrant myself, nothing could be further from the truth.
I am very much in favor of increased and…
The Curious Case of Claudine Gay. This is a detailed critique of President Gay’s academic and administrative history prior to her becoming President of Harvard.
It is worth a careful read. For those who are more familiar with the facts, I welcome your input as to the facts and…
"Harvard online course catalog has a search box. Type in “decolonize.” That word is in the titles of 7 courses and the descriptions of 18 more. “Oppression” and “liberation” are in the descriptions of more than 80 courses. “Social justice” is in >100."
.
@Harvard
misled and threatened the
@nypost
with litigation to get it to kill an article which alleged that President Gay had committed plagiarism.
This reflects very poorly on the Corporation board, and anyone else in Harvard’s administration who was behind this effort.
This…
I asked a senior member of the
@Harvard
faculty to examine the below allegations of plagiarism against President Gay.
The faculty member found them to be credible.
EXCLUSIVE:
@RealChrisBrunet
and I have obtained documentation demonstrating that Harvard President Claudine Gay plagiarized multiple sections of her Ph.D. thesis, violating Harvard's policies on academic integrity.
This is a bombshell. 🧵
So
@Harvard
permits on campus rallies calling for Intifada, or in other words, a call to action to kill Israeli civilians and Jews with suicide bombings, knife attacks and shootings.
Would the protest be permitted if they called for lynchings of black people?
There has been no due process.
@NeriOxman
was given 90 minutes to respond to a 7,000-word plagiarism allegation before Business Insider published a piece saying she was a plagiarist.
Claudine Gay had the opportunity for many weeks of private review of the accusations if not a…
I don’t get the point of this complaint. Oxman is getting the same trial in the court of opinion that Rufo and the Free Beacon gave Gay, and presumably she’ll get the same due process from MIT that Gay received from Harvard. Probably better, actually. So what’s the problem?
A few questions:
How can one defend oneself against an accusation of plagiarizing Wikipedia for a dissertation written 15 years ago in 2009?
Isn’t the whole point of Wikipedia that it is a dynamic source of info that changes minute by minute based on edits and contributions…
102 million people have viewed the below post and the video of the
@Harvard
,
@MIT
, and
@Penn
presidents’ testimony to Congress.
How can they appear in public after such disgraceful testimony?
Has anyone seen them since Tuesday?
The presidents of
@Harvard
,
@MIT
, and
@Penn
were all asked the following question under oath at today’s congressional hearing on antisemitism:
Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?
The…
The reporter told Fran that she was going to publish her story shortly thereafter that evening so it was clear to the reporter and to us that we would not have time to respond. In one of my previous posts, I got some of the timing slightly wrong. It was worse than I thought.…
You know that you struck a chord when they go after your wife, in this case my love and partner in life,
@NeriOxman
.
I am one of the most fortunate people in the universe in large part because of Neri.
Please see her post below about today’s Business Insider piece about her…
I was forwarded an email this morning from a reporter at Business Insider who noted that there are four paragraphs in my 330-page PhD dissertation: “Material-based Design Computation,” which I completed at
@MIT
in 2010,
where I omitted quotation marks…
On Sunday afternoon, Nicholas Carlson, the Global Editor-in Chief of Business Insider stated in an email to his staff that:
"The facts of the stories have not been disputed by Oxman or her husband Bill Ackman.
Ackman and others have raised concerns about our reporting process,…
Let me get this straight:
College administrators have created a bunch of meaningless jobs…
to employ a bunch of useless people…
who graduated with unemployable degrees…
and are passing off the costs on our children…
while raking in billions of tax payer 💵
It’s a racket
An update on
@MIT
Chairman Gorenberg and his wife's non-profit, .
This evening an email was forwarded to me from a friend who is an MIT alum which was intended to clarify MIT's involvement in . The forwarded email said the…
A bipartisan demand from
@EliseStefanik
and
@RepMoskowitz
for the removal of Presidents Gay, Magill, and Kornbluth.
Consider the severe reputational damage the three continue to inflict on our most important American institutions of higher learning for each hour they continue…
I am proud to lead a bipartisan letter with
@RepMoskowitz
and 72 of our colleagues to the members of the Governing Boards of
@Harvard
,
@MIT
, and
@Penn
demanding that their presidents be removed after this week's
@EdWorkforceCmte
hearing.
Read the full letter here.
I have been told now by two reporters that one of the factors that made it challenging for the
@Harvard
board to fire Gay was that they were concerned it would look like they were kowtowing to me.
Listen to
@MIT
student Talia Khan. Consider the risk she is taking by speaking truth to power.
The only answer is for Kornbluth to go now, before she has blood on her hands.
"This is the same climate of antisemitism that has led to the massacre of Jews throughout the centuries. This is not just harassment. This is our lives on the line."
@MIT
student Talia Khan highlights the rise of antisemitism at MIT.
We are going to need help with our review of
@MIT
faculty and affiliates. Please contact Fran McGill at mcgill
@persq
.com if your company has the capabilities to assist us.
We now know that the
@Harvard
Corporation Board sought to quash a legitimate whistleblower inquiry into President Gay’s work by threatening the media with litigation if they published the whistleblower’s allegations, which the Board said were demonstrably false, but in fact were…
New whistleblower complaint alleging 50 instances of plagiarism by
@Harvard
President Gay.
The whistleblower raises serious issues about how the initial investigation into Gay’s work was conducted.
The whistleblower levels credible accusations against the
@Harvard
governing…
I am sure all of us have had the experience of reading a story about a subject you know well and finding it replete with inaccuracies and falsehoods. One then turns the page and reads an article about a subject one knows less well and makes the mistake of believing that this…