Eli Lake

Columnist for @theFP. Contributing editor at @commentary. And Host of Breaking History

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

A number of people have argued that it is a culture of faculty cowardice, rather than the collapse of the tenure system, that is the real problem leading to endemic academic groupthink. My response to that is: why not both?

[Eli Lake @EliLake]

Simply the best

[James Kirchick @jkirchick]

If you protest a war but refuse to condemn the side that started it, if you vilify the country that was attacked but not the terrorists who attacked it, you're at best a useful idiot for, and at worst a willing accomplice of, religious fascists. https://t.co/pkcqgUUJvG

[Eli Lake @EliLake]

Bravo @jkirchick

[Peter Savodnik @petersavodnik]

In which @jkirchick skewers the child performers who confuse street theater for activism

https://t.co/e3RjbN23U3

[Eli Lake @EliLake]

@exjon Source?

[Eli Lake @EliLake]

@davereaboi What a find!!!

[David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense @davereaboi]

Shortly before he died, Bill Evans and his trio with Marc Johnson and Joe LeBarbara recorded for Iowa Public Television from a jazz club called the Maintenance Shop near the campus of Iowa State University.

It subsequently became a sought-after VHS tape—and one I rented from Kim’s Video in NYC.

Here is their performance of Johnny Mandel’s “Theme from MASH,” which was an Evans favorite.

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

We're watching an enormous misread of the results from Wisconsin. The dumb take is that the DSA has reached its ceiling, and the establishment is fighting back. That's totally wrong. The normie Dems are simply negotiating the terms of their surrender.

Those terms are obvious: the Democratic Party will ingest and mirror the key precepts of the DSA, and they won't go whole hog against DSA candidates who don't totally say the quiet part out loud. This is why Slotkin didn't endorse Stevens against El-Sayed in Michigan. It's why Schumer and Jeffries didn't endorse Cuomo against Mamdani in NYC.

In return, the DSA's most important figures will refrain from endorsing the very worst candidates. This is why Bernie and AOC didn't endorse Hong. If they had, she would have won.

The goal of the pact is obvious: candidates who are DSA in all but name, who receive unified Democratic support after the primaries, and who still have a shot at winning a general election. So don't be fooled: the DSA is driving the car, choosing the direction. The normie Dems are just negotiating over the speed.

[Eli Lake @EliLake]

It’s good that a ridiculous lunatic like @FrancescaHongWI lost her primary. But the socialists and the anti-American left have made enormous gains this cycle. Normies still have a lot of work to do.

[POLITICO @politico]

The far left hits a wall https://t.co/a6EiUYwexi

[Jon Levine @LevineJonathan]

Amazing what a little Vitamin USA can do!

[Eli Lake @EliLake]

I’m no socialist and want your movement to fail. But the real solidarity here would be to distance the movement from a nonsense person who thinks in identity cliches and woke slogans. Protect the brand.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

I can't believe what a fuckup this is. A winnable race, totally whiffed because our leading left politicians do not grasp the concept of solidarity.

[Eli Lake @EliLake]

August 11, 2026 may go down as the day Wisconsin Democrats saved Thanksgiving.

[The Free Press @TheFP]

The plagiarism scandal at Cambridge is a symptom of a deeper problem: academia’s willingness to accept intellectual mediocrity from black scholars in its self-seeking pursuit of virtue, writes John McWhorter. https://t.co/J3ZvaWTJeA

[David Frum @davidfrum]

The Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh in 1971- a real one this time- was brought to an end by an Indian army led by a Jewish commanding general.

[Adam Kredo @Kredo0]

SCOOP: Code Pink Founder’s Radical ‘Charity’ Ordered To Cease Operations After Years of Tax Delinquency — More than $51 mil in assets remain a mystery as shadowy left wing network is ‘starting to unravel,’ @IANempowers discovers https://t.co/UM7YaytIzu

[Lee Fang @lhfang]

During the height of 2020 insanity, I had coworkers, former colleagues, sources, etc. turn on me and invent fantastical claims. They did not care about right and wrong or what was true or not. They saw a social media mob forming and decided to pick up a rock to throw.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

Brutal @JohnHMcWhorter on the Arday scandal:

“A make-believe academic who misspelled paltry as poultry in the title slide of a keynote address… scaled the heights of Britain’s Harvard because of his skin color and his exceptionally long dreadlocks”

https://t.co/ngGjgoWrKX

[Lee Fang @lhfang]

Good reminder that people I worked alongside, including Jeremy Scahill and Naomi Klein, were very quick to jump on a bandwagon and support an unfounded vicious smear against me for absolutely no reason at all other than maintaining lefty herd mentality https://t.co/AJ9IMevYPd

[Chuck Ross @ChuckRossDC]

Funny story: In 2020, after the Hunter laptop came out, journos at Daily Caller, the site Tucker Carlosn-founded site where I worked, came across emails that showed Tucker asking Hunter Biden to write a letter of recommendation for his son to get into Georgetown.

Us Caller reporters thought this would be a great way to refute Bidenworld's claims at that time that the laptop emails were fake or illegitimate.

Someone who emailed with Hunter could verify their authenticity! We thought Tucker would be more than happy to help, and no ill will was intended.

But no. Tucker lashed out at the Daily Caller employee who was tasked with contacting him about this, saying that a story on that would be an "attack on my family," or something along those lines.

https://t.co/tAvODCDsZq

[Eli Lake @EliLake]

A tour de force from @Tyler_A_Harper on why he gave up his tenure track at @BatesCollege. It’s beyond the performative radicalism of administrators and faculty. He gets at the hypocrisy of wokeness as a cover for unfair labor conditions. https://t.co/wZPGWMP4bl

[Eli Lake @EliLake]

I don’t hate @JonahRemnant for chasing clicks in his latest podcast with @EdwardShawcross on the life of Napoleon III. @thedispatch isn’t a nonprofit. I get it. 19th century French political history is very hot right now. This pod will drive engagement https://t.co/CTCAjMHPNr