Noah Pollak
@NoahPollak
Trump admin political appointee serving as Senior Advisor, Department of Education. Still a suburban dad and car guy. Views my own. ניצחון מוחלט
All timer. How will the national Discourse survive with these insights?
Some professional news: After 11 years of columnizing at WaPo, I'm taking the buyout. This is my last column. It is my advice to any other lucky pundits who land a perch like this—11 principles I've aspired to, even if I haven't always achieved them: wapo.st/3TU2fGw
Time for a new service pistol. And by new service pistol, I mean old service pistol. TWO WORLD WARS
The U.S. Air Force's Global Strike Command has indefinitely paused M18 pistol use after a fatal incident at F.E. Warren AFB. This follows concerns over Sig Sauer P320s firing without triggers being pulled, leading ICE to ban them permanently.
US 🇺🇲 Ambassador to Israel 🇮🇱 @GovMikeHuckabee: “France 🇫🇷 should carve out a piece of the French Riviera, and create a Palestinian state there.” Many parts of France already look like Gaza.
The Trump Administration's deal with Columbia University is a seismic shift in our nation’s fight to hold institutions that accept American taxpayer dollars accountable for antisemitic discrimination and harassment. For decades, the American public has watched in horror as our…
The president of George Mason University says that public universities should select leaders on the basis of "racial diversity," rather than merit, and that his job is to promote "the five pillars of social justice," rather than to pursue the truth. He should resign.
Texas is actually one of the more fair maps in America; Democrats got 40% of the House vote & 34% of House seats; reasonable Compare to California, where Republicans got 40% of the vote and 18% of the seats. Or Illinois, where GOP got **47%** of the House vote and 18% of seats
This is not democracy.
Non-citizens should not be given special preference over American citizens for scholarships at American universities. @usedgov opened an investigation into 5 universities for allegedly blocking U.S. students from accessing DACA scholarships. ed.gov/about/news/pre…
CNN begging a Hamas supporter to pretend he's not a Hamas supporter--in order to save him. He declines their off-ramp. Would they attempt a similar rescue effort with a Klan supporter? Why not? nypost.com/2025/07/22/us-…
Hot take: the fact that world-class scholars like Jim Hankins (one of the very, very few non-progressive humanists at Harvard College) are willing to move from Harvard to Florida is a more fundamental long-term threat to the university than any of its current legal problems.
The University of Florida is the new leader in the study of Western and American civilization. So-called elite universities have abandoned the study of Western culture and politics over the last 25 years, and that betrayal has given other institutions the opportunity to create…
It all comes back to Barack Obama the Communist.
Left: NYT description; right: an example of said gracious derision
This was an absolutely wild time to live through. “Brat”. “Joy”. The gaslighting was completely nuts.
Vibe Memories
The sole finalist to lead UT’s Health Science Center in Houston? A pro-DEI medical school dean from UVA, Melina Kibbe. She’s part of a broader leadership exodus after Jim Ryan’s ouster for refusing to rein in DEI.
The UT System Board of Regents voted unanimously to name Dr. Melina R. Kibbe as the sole finalist for the next presidency at @UTHealthHouston. Read the release. utsystem.edu/news/2025/07/1… @kibbemr
Did the IDF "attack" the church or hit it by accident? The distinction matters and the fact that Pope Leo XIV chose to imply a deliberate act is deeply regrettable. It will give cover to the terrorists still holding Israeli hostages and open old wounds between the Church & Jews.
Tragic news continues to arrive in these days from the Middle East, especially from Gaza. I express my profound sadness regarding last Thursday’s attack by the Israeli army on the Catholic Parish of the Holy Family in Gaza City, which as you know killed three Christians and…
🚨 House Democrat Leader @HakeemJeffries is corruptly strong-arming 17 New Jersey U.S. district judges--including 15 Obama and Biden judges--to fire New Jersey U.S. Attorney @AlinaHabba tomorrow at 10 am. @Article3Project just filed this House ethics complaint against Hakeem:
Pallywood cooking show
Several journalists at the media center in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital have resorted to drinking only water mixed with salt to avoid dizziness, as famine continue to grip the Gaza Strip.