Destroy The FBI; Protect The High-Jump! May 28, 2025 New Yorkers: Consider Whitney Tilson for mayor (7 minutes). Everybody else (including New Yorkers): Trump is Destroying the FBI and trying to destroy Harvard. The FBI tragedy is hugely more important than whether a trans high schooler can compete in the high jump — so I’d urge you to click that link. With luck, he won’t be able to destroy Harvard. It’s hard to see who can stop him from destroying the FBI. As for the trans girl, here’s the story. It’s not boxing or some contact sport — it’s the high jump! And local sports authorities had already arranged for her to get a “duplicate medal” if she won, so no girl-from-birth could be deprived of her rightful recognition. But the United States Government believes this is a matter too important to ignore. (Climate change? A hoax. Violent insurrectionists imprisoned by Trump-appointed judges? Pardon ’em. Stagflation . . . slashing Medicare . . . crippling the IRS . . . eviscerating the Social Security Administration? Fake news. A trans participant in a high school high-jump competition? There is a real and present danger the public demands we confront.) Back to Harvard. You may have missed the end of Tuesday’s post because of a MailChimp glitch. It should have read: And here is the kicker (though Pinker’s whole piece is worth your time): . . . Mr. Trump’s strangling of support [for science] will harm Jews more than any president in my lifetime. Many practicing and aspiring scientists are Jewish, and his funding embargo has them watching in horror as they are laid off, their labs are shut down or their dreams of a career in science go up in smoke. This is immensely more harmful than walking past a “Globalize the Intifada” sign. Worse still is the effect on the far larger number of gentiles in science, who are being told that their labs and careers are being snuffed out to advance Jewish interests. Likewise for the current patients whose experimental treatments will be halted, and the future patients who may be deprived of cures. None of this is good for the Jews. [His] concern for Jews is patently disingenuous, given Mr. Trump’s sympathy for Holocaust deniers and Hitler fans. The obvious motivation is to cripple civil society institutions that serve as loci of influence outside the executive branch. As JD Vance put it in the title of a 2021 speech: “The Universities Are the Enemy.” Join . . . Indivisible! Join Field Team 6! Spread DIS-disinformation! Support the opposition! Join a No Kings protest Saturday, June 14 — or organize your own. Use ChatGPT to make a clever sign; the nearest FedEx to print it on posterboard. You’ll be a star!