IT IS AUGUST, THE SLOWEST MONTH OF THE YEAR.  THE PSYCHIATRISTS TAKE AUGUST OFF, SO THEIR PATIENTS IN WASHINGTON AND HOLLYWOOD HAVE NO ONE TO HELP THEM THROUGH THE MONTH.  IT'S SO UNFAIR. 

BUT AUGUST STILL PRODUCES SOME NEWS, LIKE THIS EXCITING NOTIFICATION OF EMPLOYMENT, AS ONLY THE ROTTING ACADEMIC ESTABLISHMENT CAN PUT IT.  FROM COLLEGE FIX: 

A State Department official who is “on leave” from his job as a diplomat to Iran will stay busy this fall with two new jobs at Yale University and Princeton University.

“Robert Malley, currently on leave from his role as a special envoy for Iran in the State Department, comes to SPIA as a John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor and Visiting Lecturer,” Princeton announced. “He will teach a graduate course this fall on foreign policy decision-making, and one to two undergraduate courses in the spring focused on some combination of diplomacy, negotiation, and foreign policy.”

Not mentioned in the news release is why Malley (pictured) is currently free to teach – he’s under federal investigation for his “handling of classified material,” according to CBS News. He lost his security clearance in relation to the investigation, freeing him up to teach at Princeton and Yale.

Malley joins seven other “senior fellows” at Yale where he will “spend a year or semester at Yale teaching courses and mentoring students.”

“Malley is on leave from the U.S. State Department where he had been serving as Special Envoy for Iran since January 28, 2021,” the Connecticut Ivy League college stated.

The appointments drew criticism from Congressman Jim Banks of Indiana.

“Apparently, the reward for selling out our nation to Iran and losing your security clearance is a cushy gig in the Ivy League,” Banks, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, told The Washington Free Beacon.

Senator Ted Cruz, a Princeton alumnus, called the decision “pitiful.”

“Pitiful. Look who my alma mater just made a prof. Rob Malley was such a pro-Iran radical that he was FIRED from Biden admin & had his security clearance stripped for ‘mishandling classified docs’ (the details are still hidden),” Cruz tweeted.

Elite universities remain a safe harbor for Democratic politicians who get forced out of their jobs. The University of California Berkeley recently hired failed San Francisco prosecutor Chesa Boudin to run a new legal clinic after he was recalled by voters for his soft-on-crime policies.

The University of Chicago also hired Tim Ryan and Beto O’Rourke, who collectively had lost five elections in the past three years, as visiting fellows for the recent spring semester. Chicago’s former mayor, Lori Lightfoot, will join Harvard this fall after she lost after just one term.

COMMENT:  Let us note that these institutions receive millions in federal aid, taxpayer money, to help them elevate American society.  Observe how the funds are spent.

It is widely reported that there is a growing revulsion toward institutions of "higher" education, with many wondering if they're even worth the price.  I wonder why.  Don't you?

August 20,  2023