 Over the weekend, and it started last week as we talked about this on, I think it was on Friday's show, but over the last week we saw the continuation of what has come to be known as the plagiarism wars. As you, just let me give you some background. Bill Ackerman, Ackerman, Ackerman, Ackerman, there's no ER. For some reason, I think there's an Ackerman, but it's Ackman. Bill Ackman, who is an incredibly successful hedge fund manager, a billionaire, and has been in the hedge fund business since, what, the early 2000s, I think, and it has an amazing track record. Anyway, actually, he's been in the investment business since 1982. Ackerman became kind of the leader of, I think, many voices, but somebody because he's such a successful hedge fund manager. He's not just a successful hedge fund manager. Over the years, he has made money and been involved in some pretty contentious battles within corporate America. So, and I think has gained a voice and a following as a consequence of that. And he has quite an active Twitter account, and he has expressed himself about corporate America, about his investments on that Twitter account in the past. So he's also a donor of Harvard University and alumni of Harvard University. And he became, if you will, the leader of, at least in terms of vocally, the leader of the group of donors, supporters of Harvard University, who were horrified by Gay's testimony in front of the House and were calling for her resignation. And then he magnified, significantly magnified the concerns about the plagiarism, the plagiarism that Gay had clearly committed, and was, I think, a real power behind all the different alumni who were drawing funds from Harvard. Some people have said that Ackerman drew a billion dollars of donations from Harvard. That's not true. The speculation is that Ackerman and others together basically are withholding a billion dollars from Harvard, and that was part of what ultimately led to, you know, Gay's, the pressure on Gay to ultimately resign. Ackerman, yes, I got it, Ackman. So Bill Ackman was at the forefront of calling for resignation, of highlighting and amplifying the cause for resignation and amplifying the issue of plagiarism. Now let me remind you, Gay's plagiarism involved over half of her academic papers. It involved major, major issues of plagiarism. This is not, you know, this is not something, you know, this is not something trivial. It was not a sentence here, a sentence there. It was whole paragraphs. It was whole paragraphs where there was no attribution. Anyway, I think it was Thursday or Friday. Business Insider decided to go after Ackman's wife. Ackman's wife is Neri Ackman. Neri Ackman, I think is Israeli. I read somewhere she's Israeli. Anyway, she is a scientist. She worked, I think for many years at MIT and was an academic at MIT, but now has a startup. I don't exactly understand what she does. But I've been told that the interview with, she has an interview with Lex Friedman. It's quite extraordinary and definitely worth watching. So I'm planning on watching her interview with Lex and understand a little bit more about what she does. Anyway, they came out and said in a dissertation written, I don't know, 2010, a long time ago, she committed plagiarism. And I talked about this Friday, these are minor cases of plagiarism. She didn't put the quotation marks even though she gave the attribution and a few other things that were relatively minor and could easily be viewed as errors, mistakes, but not copy-paste. I'm just going to ignore it. And she gives clear attribution for these things. Anyway, over the weekend, Business Insider clearly motivated by revenge, clearly motivated by going after the guy you called out gay for plagiarism, as if his wife is in the same status as the president of Harvard, as somebody who claims to have that position because of her academic accomplishments. I mean, whatever Neri Oxman's status is, she's not president of Harvard. She's not in a public position like that. She's not in a position of leadership. She's got a startup. She runs a company, her company. Anyway, it's clearly, Akron, you went after the president of Harvard. We're going after you. But who's the we? Right? So this is a business insider, most other or every other major mainstream media publication. Here's a shout out to the mainstream media who approached with the story of Oxman's supposed plagiarism turned it down. Business Insider ran with it. Anyway, over the weekend, Ackman got a, what is it, a 6,000 word, you know, a long, long, long article, 7,000 word plagiarism allegation that they sent. They basically gave him and his wife, I don't even know if they're married. He calls it his partner for life, but I don't know if they're technically married. Anyway, it's partner for life. They gave him 90 minutes to respond, 90 minutes to respond. Of course, they didn't, you know, you can't respond to 90 minutes and accusation like this. And so they don't care. They don't care about facts. They don't care about reality. They don't care about, you know, what exactly, what she actually did or didn't do. They don't want her input on this. Remember, Claude and Gay had weeks, you know, plagiarism, the accusation of plagiarism being around for months. She had weeks to comment on them, to offer a defense, to offer a counter. Ackman's wife has given 90 minutes. But why is she even in the public eye? Why does anybody care? I mean, why should anybody care? But it's okay to go after and, you know, some of these headlines, you know, that they come out with, you know, accusing, just, you know, unbelievable, right? Just unbelievable. Anyway, Ackman is active on Twitter, defending himself, defending his wife, as I think he should be. But what I find interesting as part of this is, you know, Ackman is not somebody you want to mess with. As many corporate leaders I think have found out, he's going to, he is not going to let this go. He is demanding that business insider, you know, explain itself, why it's going after them, why allowing them 90 minutes to comment and so on. What is this other than a vendetta? What exactly are the interests involved? Ackman will use his significant financial resources, I think, to go after these people, right? And he now is, I think, awakened. Maybe he's woke. Is this the meaning of woke? When you awaken to a reality, he's now awakened to the real challenges and real problems that our media has and the way it operates, the ideological take that they have. And of course the ideological take our educational system has and discrimination that our educational system has and the fact that free speech is constrained on American campuses. He's going to take all this on. So he's a fighter and he has the resources to do it. And he has the platform to do it. So this is again another way in which I think beware if you're woke left who and what you wake up, who and what you offend and the kind of resources they're going to be thrown at you. I mean, my guess is that Bill Ackman is probably, I don't know, politically left of center. Maybe center right, but he's not, he's not crazy right. He's not, I don't think he's a Trumpist, I don't think he's, I think he probably voted for Biden. I don't know. But that's my impression. You're waking these people up, these people who have not really been involved, these people who maybe have not really figured out where you are and what you've done to the institutions and you're waking people up with a lot of influence, with a lot of money and with a lot of ability, right. And he's not the only one. There's a bunch of moderate Democrats, many of them Jewish, who have woken up to what the left is doing to what they're doing at our universities and how they're using the media to attack and slander and just orient the world in a direction by dishonest means. So he's after them. He is ready. I mean, he's also committed to real reform at Harvard, which I think is quite exciting. This is just a fact, I just, he just posted this on his Twitter account. He says, the ideological takeover of Harvard is nearly complete. We are all stepping in just in time to save it, but it's going to be a fight. And he's citing here a tweet from Nicholas Christakis, and again, Nicholas Christakis is, yeah, he's a professor of social and natural sciences at Yale. I don't know what his affiliation is. Again, anyway, Christakis writes, Harvard Online Course Catalog has a search box. Type in decolonize. That word is in the titles of seven courses and the descriptions of 18 more. Type in oppression and liberation. They're in the description of more than 80 courses. Books of justice in more than a hundred courses. That's a takeover of Harvard that now people like Ackman have a focusing their efforts on fixing, on straightening out, straightening out. So this is going to be interesting. It's going to be a real fight. The fight at the end of the day for Harvard is the fight for American academia. It's probably a losing fight. Harvard is probably lost, but that fight will resonate in other universities. Harvard sets the tone. Things happening at Harvard set the tone. If Harvard is under attack, other universities will pay attention. They'll be afraid. They'll pivot. They'll change. This could be a moment where you start seeing positive changes in American academia and we'll see. It's going to take more than Ackman because he doesn't have the intellectual resources to win this ultimately. He doesn't have the philosophical, I think, context to win this. Many of the other big financiers who've gone after, particularly University of Pennsylvania, the people who've withdrawn from UPan, most of the people who made the press about their withdrawing funding from UPan are people I know as Ayn Rand fans. Ackman I don't know one way or the other. UPan, definitely. Maybe you could say this is one more way in which Ayn Rand is having an impact on the culture. There are a lot of billionaires today in the world, a lot of billionaires today in the world who are not objectivists but who are heavily influenced by Ayn Rand and therefore heavily influencing the response to the insanity on the campuses of our universities. Now primarily because of the response to October 7th but I think as a result it is opening their eyes to the rest of the world insanity, the DEI insanity that's happening out there.