Politics, law, education, and culture ran four-way stop signs simultaneously to detonate a mushroom cloud known as 2024. The highlights are apparent, but you may have forgotten some lesser-known events. Here’s a recap of the year’s most consequential stories.
Trump wasted no time by nominating every major Fox News personality to a cabinet position.
January: Claudine Gay resigned as Harvard’s president after telling Congressmembers they needed to contextualize the call to slaughter Jews on an industrial scale. A few people found this preposterous, chief among them Jews, along with much of the sane, civilized world. Harvard understood it erred and immediately interviewed Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan to guide the storied school temporarily. Sadly, he didn’t get the job.
February: Special prosecutor Robert Hur reported he would not charge President Biden with illegally possessing classified documents…
