Rikki Schlott

Rikki Schlott

Background

Rikki Schlott 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) and co-hosts the Lost Debate podc🔯ast. She covers higher education, women's issues, freedom of speech, and popular culture.

Latest Articles

New probe claims TikTok execs know the app is harming kids — why are we lett🃏ing it happen?

 New documents from an investig✃ation by Kentucky’s AG claim TikTok is well aware of kids under 13 using the app — and of underage girls s🎉tripping on livestreams.

Asian enrollment at top colleges Princeton, Yale and Duke down —a💧dmissions group claims discrimi⛄nation

A🍎sian student enrollment has declined at Duke, Princeton, and Yale, even after a🧸 ruling outlawing affirmative action. 

Jewish life on campus 'attacked' as anti-Israel activists call for Hillels to be defunded, shut down

💖 “We’re very concerned that this is a clear effort to undermine Jewish life on campus,” Shira Goodman, Vice President of advocacy and national affairs at the Anti-Defamation League, told The...

Over 5,700 American children had trans surgery between 2019 and 2023, medical group claims: 'Treated like guinea pigs'

A new analysis finds more than 5,000 transgender American kids were operated on. ꦡ

In their rush to save t🐎he world, woke celebritꦦies actually cause more problems than they solve

Corporations, billionaires and celebs are shrill champions of social justice causes. Author Musa Al-Gharbi exp🐭lains ho🐎w they end up torching the issues instead of solving the problems.  

ꦆ Meta, Harvard are total free-speech hypocrites 💯

How ironic that a slogan that arguably condones genocide is not “hate speech” — especia🎃lly considering Meta’s long history of censorship.

Why no one wants to be a college president: 'You could not pay me enough'

"Student protests, those are just the cherry on top 𓆉of the crap sandwich that you're dealing with as president," said one educat💯or who says he has turned down recruiters.

Columbia University antisemitism report highlights bigotry among elites in college system ♎

🃏 Columbia University’s new task f⛎orce report shows that antisemitism is pervasive at the university — and it’s just a symptom of a larger ailment plaguing elite higher education.

This is the anti-woke activist who is taking o♕n corporate Amer🃏ica’s DEI policies — and winning

 "The majorityꩵ of CEOs in America are very happy to have an excuse to get rid of" DEI, Robby Starbuck — who has pushed Lowe's, Ford and more to change — told... 🌺

Called 'baby killers' and scared to wear Stars of David, Jewish kids fear campus protests will get worse

🍷 “I just hope that my fe♉llow classmates can at least have the decency to steer away from blatant antisemitism," said one sophomore at Columbia.

Half of Americans under 35 would quit rather than work with political 'opponents' — that's scary

Zoomer and Millennial employees were raised with their schools taking stands on contentious political issueꦏs — and giving them ෴the bubble of "safe spaces."

Anti-Israel a𒅌ctivists are clashing with black voters over Kamala Harris 🅠on TikTok

Pro-Palestine activists are arguing on TikTok that progressive voters should refuse to vote for 🌌Kamala Harris, someti🔯mes directly calling out black voters — who are pushing back.

Inspired by Kylie Jenner & Bella Hadid, ꩵyoung women are begging plastic surgeons to make it look like t🙈hey never smile 

Celebs and influencers are wagin🐟g war on an obscure facial feature.

House committee slams Columbia for giving protesters 'get out of jail free' pass

The congressional rep🎀ort also warned of future protest chaos, saying Columbia is "inviting more of th🤪e same" by letting student protesters off the hook.

Columbia profs fearful of 🧸new wave of protests 𒆙as school year begins 

As the fall semester nears, Columbia professors are worried more chaotic protests are to co💮me.

Barnard in uproar after school offends both pro-Israel, pro-Palestini☂an factions with social media post

“Social media mistakes happen. However, it is deeply concerning to note that this incident follows a larger pattern at Columbia of gaslighting the Jewish community by de🍒nying that antisemitism is...

More women are skipping coll꧅ege to make six figures as electricians, car mechanics and truck drivers

𝄹 A growing number of young women are opting to work with their hands.

Gen Z is 'more likely' to vote if Taylor Swift endorses a candidate — and that's scary

 Groupthink is a dangerous thing. Groupthink led by the political opi꧂nions utterly unqualified pop stars is even🦹 worse. 

Rand Paul worries 'bizarre' Kids Online Safety Act will lead to 'censorship'

The Kid✅s Online Safety Act (KOSA) passed with flying bipartisan colors in the Senate Tuesday — but Rand Paul stood virtually alone against it.

Protesters are alr🌌eady threatening campus disruption for fall — a𒆙nd schools look unprepared

Pro-Palestinian protesters have already threatened their return to campuses for the fall, and NYU faculty is threatening to stop working if their protest-related demands aren't met by Aug. 15🍸.