We kick things off with good news!

French nuclear capacity is rising, German gas storage is high and rising, people are making pizza on the frontlines in Ukraine, and Avatar 2 is setting box office records. Here’s a good Nature rundown on the new generation of obesity drugs.

Let’s do some questions.

Baseball mom: I’m curious to her more about your negative views of elite universities. I understand the criticism that they educate so few of the college-going generation compared to community colleges, where attention on higher ed should really lie. But elite universities make scientific discoveries; employ thousands; run top hospitals; signal the prestige and power of American education to the world; and many actually try to do right by their communities. Why not keep growing Harvard’s endowment, if possible?

I have a specific criticism of the intersection of elite American universities and left-wing politics. There is a lot of self-righteousness on Twitter coming from people whose jobs a…