THOMAS ELIAS: When AB101 passed, lawmakers said the putative course of study had “guardrails” against bigotry, including anti-Semitism. Plainly, there are paths around those guardrails.
THOMAS ELIAS: Increasingly, city governments are becoming the last resort for resistance to policies adopted by both elected state officials and appointed functionaries who assume authority normally reserved for votes
Rhetoric that has very recently led directly to both bigotry and violence. That describes some of what’s in two very recent writings from the University of California faculty group creating the curriculum for an ethnic studies course intended to become an admission requirement for all of UC’s undergraduate campuses. This should be sufficient reason for […]
THOMAS ELIAS: Bet on this: when Gavin Newsom is termed out of the governor’s office at the end of 2026, he will not go quietly into retirement, as Jerry Brown