Rikki Schlott
✤Rikki Schlott is a columnist at the New York Post.
Background
🍸Rikki is a New York Post columnist, News Features reporter, and author of "The Canceling of the American Mind." Schlott completed a research fellowship with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). She covers higher education, women's issues, freedom of speech, and popular culture.
Latest Articles
♒ Teens are losing their minds over college rejections — we need to give them some perspective
🐻 It might not feel true when you’re a senior in high school, but you absolutely are so much more than the school you go to.
Columbia University faces new trouble as top admissions consultant says students won't accept offers — 'brand has been tarnished'
☂ "This would not have been the case three years ago,” Christopher Rim said after 10 Command Education clients were accepted to Columbia's Class of ’29 — and not a single one...
🌜 Hacker claims responsibility for replacing NYU’s website with apparent test scores, racial epithet
🧸 A dark web user has claimed responsibility for briefly hacking NYU's website and replacing it with what appeared to be test scores and an apparent racial epithet.
How Columbia fueled anti-Israel campus chaos by 'cherry-picking' students who were 'really, really, really into social justice activism’
♐ “Columbia essentially did this to themselves,” college admissions expert Christopher Rim told The Post.
🐎 Influencers are making big money selling leftover videos — ones not yet posted online — to train AI
𓃲 As the race to train AI on unique content heats up, a new company wants to pay for years-old video sitting on your hard drive.
Maine rep banned for posting about trans athlete slams state's woke leaders, sues over free speech violation
🦹 “It was a bad move politically for the Democrat majority to censure me for speaking up for Maine girls,” Laurel Libby told The Post.
High school seniors reject Columbia over campus chaos: 'Why would you want to go there?'
༺ While an acceptance letter from Columbia was once cause for celebration, now it’s cause for trepidation.
꧋ Trump is right to defund schools that allow illegal protests — but must protect free speech
♊ It should never have gotten to this point. But colleges are so unable to corral their own kids that President Trump is stepping in to do it for them.
Whiz kid offered Google job out of high school but got rejected by 16 colleges —now he's suing for discrimination
ꦬ Stanley Zhong was a near perfect college applicant. Then almost every college rejected him.
A book about the media cover-up of Biden's decline is a great idea ... But should CNN's Jake Tapper write it?
🌞 This absolutely is a book that needs to be written. But Jake Tapper just isn’t the man for the job.
Hookup culture, dating apps destroying teen girls' self-esteem, says author offering a 'New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century'
🤡 “I speak to young women, and the only sex they've ever had has been casual sex,” Louise Perry told The Post.
Gen Zers says antidepressants have ruined their sex lives: 'I'm dead inside'
♏ Young people are experiencing distressing symptoms of sexual dysfunction and emotional numbness following antidepressant usage.
๊ Vivek Ramaswamy tells The Post his plan to make Ohio great again: School choice and investment in industry
ꦜ The 39-year-old Republican officially threw his hat into his home state's gubernatorial race.
♉ Germans are being arrested for insulting politicians — we need to protect free speech so it never happens here
𒀰 Here in America, we can insult our politicians. Let’s keep it that way.
Inside the new baby-boom movement that's taken hold of Silicon Valley — complete with gene editing and artificial wombs
﷽ Silicon Valley elites are quietly appointing themselves ancestors of the future.
🤡 ‘October 7th made me realize being trans is a luxury belief — so I’m detransitioning’
🥂 “I realized that there were more important things in life than my gender dysphoria, because I had to just save myself," Maia said.
GOP club prez pushed out over Barron Trump remarks hits back: 'It's an uphill battle being a Republican at NYU'
🐠 “I’ve been killing myself trying to support the conservative movement,” Kaya Walker told The Post. “I've put my everything into building up my chapter."
Inside biohacker Bryan Johnson's bizarre $349-a-ticket Don't Die Summit's supplements, penis talk and grim reaper cameo
꧙ Bryan Johnson wants to live forever. And for just $349 per ticket and your Saturday afternoon, he promises to share the secrets of his age-defying body with us ordinary folk.
Columbia leaders 'doubling down' on a Hamas-supporting lecturer caused me to quit: ex prof
𒀰 "They did almost everything wrong," former Columbia Business School professor Avi Friedman said of university officials.
NYC teens reveal what they're smoking, drinking — and hiding from their parents
🌳 Zyns are in, cigarettes are back, everyone's on amphetamines and drinking alcohol is done, Manhattan teens report. As for vaping? “I’d say it’s more of a middle school thing at...