OUTRAGEOUS PICK: Columbia’s New President is a Controversial Law Professor Married to a Notorious Biden Operative

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY has just sent a STUNNING MESSAGE to the nation, appointing a “reformed” DEI crusader as its next president—a move critics are calling the ULTIMATE SURRENDER to political pressure. Jennifer L. Mnookin, the outgoing chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, will take the Ivy League helm in 2026 after overseeing the DISMANTLING of her own campus’s diversity office. Is this the FINAL NAIL in the coffin for woke academia, or a CYNICAL PLOY to silence conservatives?

The announcement comes as Columbia reels from a MASSIVE $221 MILLION federal settlement over alleged antisemitic discrimination and civil rights violations. In a SHOCKING REVERSAL, Mnookin—once a vocal supporter of Black Lives Matter who derided “institutionalized racism” in the legal system—now publicly admits universities were “deeply focused on identity diversity” and “not so focused on viewpoint diversity.” Her appointment is a BLATANT CONTRADICTION that has left both the activist Left and the reformist Right FURIOUS.

Mnookin, a longtime Democratic donor to Obama, Biden, and Clinton, is now being PRAISED by Wisconsin’s Republican Assembly Speaker for “closing its division of DEI.” This raises a disturbing question: are America’s elite institutions now so terrified of government crackdowns and court battles that they will INSTALL LEADERS willing to BETRAY their own stated principles for survival?

The timing is SUSPECT. With哥伦比亚 under relentless federal scrutiny, Mnookin’s selection feels like a CALCULATED DEFENSE MOVE—a shield against further investigations. But at what cost to academic freedom, or to the very students who were promised protection? This isn’t leadership; it’s a HOSTAGE SITUATION played out in boardrooms.

As Columbia prepares to hand its future to a president who mastered the art of political shape-shifting, one terrifying reality emerges: our universities are no longer temples of truth, but pawns in a brutal culture war where PRAGMATISM TRUMPS CONVICTION every time. The soul of American education has just been sold, and the receipt is a press release.