Instead of a letter grade, first-semester transcripts will show “pass or no credit.” The program is designed to help students “acclimate to the demands of college and allow intrinsic motivations to guide personally meaningful academic journeys,” the school said. (Belkin, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreThe key to understanding this fight is recognizing that as much as progressives want men who say they are women to be allowed in women’s sports, they don’t have to get that to win. The activists will be happy enough if they can simply ruin the game for those fighting to keep women’s sports for women. (McGurn, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreLike groups of atoms, those subsets can form — and dissolve — at quicksilver pace, leaving people in ever-tinier bubbles, devoid of connection with one another and the larger social fabric. Even subgroups have subgroups, dividing amoeba-like into combative factions, creating a nation of us vs. them and them and them..(McKinley, The New York Times)
Read MoreA bipartisan bill to prevent demonstrations near houses of worship was introduced in both the House of Representatives and Senate Thursday (Aug. 6) and has already won the support of several Jewish organizations. (Shimron, Religion News Service)
Read MorePeople still crave the feeling of watching, cheering and talking about the same thing at the same time. It feels like the monoculture is at least trying to hold on for dear life. (Zuckerman, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreEvery few months, a new headline appears about how Gen Z’s celibacy is sending us into a “sex recession,” while data from the General Social Survey at the University of Chicago found that, in 2024, almost a quarter of people age 18 to 29 said that they hadn’t had sex in the past year. (Beck, The Washington Post)
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