The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is investigating whether Harvard University unlawfully hires faculty based on race and sex, arguing that the school’s own data provides evidence of discrimination. The probe is the latest federal action against the beleaguered university, which last month sued the Trump administration over its…
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Weekend Beacon 5/11/25
Welcome to our special Mother’s Day edition of the Weekend Beacon, featuring all the subjects we love discussing with our mothers: faith, sex, drugs, and politics! (Okay, not all the subjects.) We begin with Mary Eberstadt, who reviews Ross Douthat’s Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious. “Believe is vintage Douthat, marked by genial…
Pocahontas 2.0
“What I didn’t like about becoming famous overnight,” Mallory McMorrow writes in her new book Hate Won’t Win: Find Your Power and Leave This Place Better Than You Found It, “is that you might assume that I had always done this, that somehow it came naturally.” Unless you’re…
Progressive participation trophies
Trump conquers the Vatican. Biden speaks, removes all doubt. Progressive participation trophies. Hot ballerina in the White House. It’s Friday, May 9, 2025 Finally, an American pope. This never would have happened on Joe Biden’s watch. Pope Francis, who was not American, died last month a few hours…
First American Pope Leo XIV Voted in Republican Primaries, Records Show
Pope Leo XIV, formerly known as Robert Prevost, voted in several Republican primaries before being elevated as successor to Pope Francis, election records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. Leo XIV, who previously lived in Chicago, voted in Republican primaries during the 2012, 2014, and 2016 election…
Haverford President Needs Giant Notecards To Remind Her Killing Jews Is Bad
Dr. Wendy Raymond, president of Haverford College in Pennsylvania, turned up to a congressional hearing on campus anti-Semitism lugging giant notecards reminding her to “think,” “breathe,” and “remember body posture,” but also to not equivocate on the question of whether it’s bad to call for the extermination of…
To Rebut Reports of His Senility, Biden Hires Press Flack Who Helped Hide Lloyd Austin’s Hospital Stay
Joe Biden, 82, hired a publicist who previously helped cover up former defense secretary Lloyd Austin’s secret hospitalization to defend him against allegations of senility. The former president’s team tapped Biden administration spokesman Chris Meagher to “help [Biden] transition past the first 100 days of the Trump administration,”…
Columbia Radicals Take Over Campus Library, Forcing Out Students Studying for Finals
A mob of Columbia University radicals stormed a campus library Wednesday afternoon, forcing out dozens of students studying for their final exams. Video footage shows around 100 masked radicals in dark clothing storming Butler Library, pushing their way past a campus security guard at the building’s entrance. Columbia…
Exclusive Analysis: Kamala’s Stepdaughter, ‘Textile Artist’ Ella Emhoff, Skips Leg Day as Often as She Shaves Her Armpits (Never)
The New Yorker, which fashions itself as a serious magazine for intellectuals, recently published some photos of “notable New Yorkers” posing in their (mostly cramped and depressing) living rooms. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made the cut, as did Al Sharpton, the notorious anti-Semite who runs a sponsored content racket out…
Trump DOE Cancels $4.5 Million Biden-Era Contract To Develop Green Energy Logo, Website
The Department of Energy canceled a $4.5 million contract the Biden administration awarded to develop a new agency website and logo symbolically highlighting the green energy transition, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Former president Joe Biden’s Department of Energy awarded the contract to the Native American firm…