At long last, accountability has arrived at the gates of the Ivy League.
Columbia University—once a symbol of academic excellence—has agreed to pay hefty fines for its continued use of unconstitutional DEI practices and its failure to protect Jewish students from rising antisemitism on campus. About time.
For years, colleges like Columbia have replaced the pursuit of knowledge with social engineering experiments. They abandoned merit in favor of quotas, identity politics, and ideological purity tests. DEI offices ballooned, free speech shrank, and anyone not marching in lockstep with progressive orthodoxy was branded a problem—or worse, a bigot.
Now, they’re being forced to answer for it.
DEI: A Trojan Horse of Division
Let’s be clear: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion sounds noble in name, but in practice, it's become a bureaucratic cult. DEI programs have promoted racial and gender essentialism, divided students into oppressor/oppressed categories, and created hostile environments for anyone who dared to think differently.
Instead of lifting people up, DEI turned campuses into minefields of grievance, where skin color mattered more than skill and group identity overshadowed individual merit.
Columbia’s enforcement of these policies wasn’t just misguided—it was illegal. And now they’re paying for it.
Antisemitism Thrived Under “Inclusive” Leadership
The hypocrisy is stunning. While Columbia touted its inclusive values, Jewish students reported a growing climate of hostility and intimidation. Antisemitic protests were allowed to rage with impunity. Threats and hate speech were brushed off as “free expression,” while conservative or pro-Israel views were shut down as “harmful.”
This wasn’t inclusion. This was ideological favoritism—plain and simple.
And for a university that received federal funding, such selective enforcement is not just immoral; it violates the very laws that protect equal treatment under the Constitution.
The Return to Meritocracy Starts Now
Columbia’s punishment should be a signal flare to every university in America: Stop the madness. Shut down the activist echo chambers masquerading as equity departments. Fire the administrators who think skin color determines truth. And most importantly—bring back merit.
A university’s job is to challenge ideas, not coddle them. To reward excellence, not excuse incompetence. To be a training ground for future leaders—not a playground for political operatives.
This isn’t just about DEI. It’s about reclaiming higher education from the ideologues who hijacked it.
Final Thought
Columbia University is finally being forced to reckon with its failures. That’s a win—for free speech, for Jewish students, for fairness, and for every American who believes we should be judged by the content of our character, not the color of our skin or the cause we hashtag.
Let this be the first of many.
