In The Free Press, Jacob Savage examines what happened when university students cheered for the terrorists in Hamas’ attack on Israel, and administrators stood by. Donors raised the alarm, demanding transparency and closing their chequebooks. Savage wonders if the Hamas atrocity could be the catalyst for change.
The Paper-Pushers Who (Barely) Control America’s Skies
Fans of the 1999 movie Pushing Tin will recall frenetic scenes of air traffic controllers working to keep airliners from colliding in crowded skies. The current reality, writes John Tierney in City Journal, is far worse. Control tasks at U.S. airports today are still exchanged using paper “flight strips”. In contrast to this “international disgrace”, writes Tierney, European and even Canadian control towers have gone nearly all-digital.