In a call with reporters last week, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona disingenuously claimed that the Biden administration’s sweeping new Title IX rule makes “crystal clear that everyone can access schools that are safe, welcoming and that respect their rights.” Actually, the new Title IX regulations socially engineer every component of the educational environment to create dangerous and unwelcoming schools for girls and young women, while also undermining parents who affirm biological reality.

Despite the common misconception that Title IX simply protects women’s collegiate sports, it is a robust anti-discrimination mandate that prohibits federally funded educational institutions — early childhood, K-12, educational programs, and higher education — from discriminating “on the basis of sex.” Title IX, which was enacted as part of the Education Amendments of 1972, states: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, [emphasis added] be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”

The Biden administration’s recently finalized 1,577-page regulations dramatically expand Title IX’s statutory protections for sex discrimination by redefining “sex” to include so-called gender identity, sex stereotypes, sexual orientation, pregnancy, and sex characteristics. But, as the vast majority of Americans know, “sex” (sometimes incorrectly referred to as gender) is not the same as “gender identity.” As The Washington Post acknowledged last year, polling reveals, “Most Americans don’t believe it’s even possible to be a gender that differs from that assigned at birth.”

Ending Free Speech

After over a year of extensive press coverage thanks to The Eras Tour, Taylor Swift has claimed her spot as America’s top celebrity.

After winning Best Album of the Year at this year’s Grammys, Swift announced her new album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” which was released last week. For Swifties, it was the next thing to look forward to after establishing cultural hegemony over the past few months.

According to Fox Business, “[H]er 11th studio album also [became] Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single day in their history.” If there was any doubt that she has outmaneuvered all competition in her genre, the commercial success clearly favors her music. Does she still have any daring edge left in her? Will the fans be right that the new album is merely an extension of the uptempo “Midnights” album? Not quite.

What got fans and media outlets raving about the album was the drama surrounding her notorious celebrity romances outside the studio. Songs taking fans through the gossip with former boyfriends Joe Alywn and Matt Healy is exactly what tabloid journalists are looking for. Was this more of the same “trying to move on but can’t” theme? Swift decides to don the mask and pour it into Lana Del Rey’s type of material. Rather than stick to the typical high school dating drama, Swift took the gloves off in bringing up decades-old grudges and new love interests alike.

The opening tracks set the stage for the “Midnights”-esque tone, however, diehard fans

NPR is biased in favor of leftists and the Democrat Party. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, this is not exactly news. Even former NPR Business Editor Uri Berliner, whose April 9 op-ed in The Free Press shed new light on the incredibly disproportionate left-wing bias of the outlet, had to admit that in 2011, liberals accounted for a significantly larger amount of audience share.

A 2010 study by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press in turn reported that 61 percent of NPR listeners described themselves as progressive, while a piece in the not-exactly-conservative publication The Nation described NPR as promoting a “lifestyle smugness” of “confident dispatches from the East Coast citadels of cultural consensus.”

No, what’s interesting about the NPR scandal is not Berliner’s exposé — which in short order led to his resignation following disciplinary action from his employer — but the response from NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who represents what is wrong with the technocratic class governing our elite institutions. In her milquetoast response to Berliner’s missive attacking NPR — which has renewed calls for defunding a media outlet that is partially funded by taxpayer dollars — Maher exposes the ideological narrowness and intellectual rot of our elite class.

Epitome of the Self-Serving Woke Technocrat

In an April 12 open letter Maher sent to NPR staff, she declared that “public media is essential for an informed public” and that “we succeed through our diversity.” She celebrated having “earned new trust from younger, more