“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” W. Churchill

“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.” G. Marx

What a year it’s been at the world’s leading STEM university. As we nurse our hangovers from last night’s festivities, let’s review MIT’s biggest stories of 2025.

DEI is Dead, Long Live DEI!

The DEI circus seems to be packing up and leaving town. (But is it, really?)

MIT cancelled its failed, and now illegal, Strategic Action Plan for Belonging, Achievement, & Composition (BAC). The Institute Community and Equity Office (ICEO) was shut down, the VP for Equity and Inclusion departing for greener pastures. And race mongering DEI-hire Chancellor Melissa Nobles was stripped of many responsibilities, including organizing MLK celebrations that featured Islamic jihadists and communist accessories to murder.

Not bad. Alas, most of the DEI deans, administrators, and staff that MIT had been spending $40M a year supporting are still employed, many bearing new titles to better hide them from the Eye of Sauron.

Trust the Science, Follow the Money

With public trust in Big Science collapsing, federal grant overhead slush money drying up, and research priorities shifting away from monetizing climate hysteria, MIT’s messaging machine kicked into overdrive.

Merit & excellence is in, complaints about systemic racism are out. New lobbyists have been hired and an astroturf alumni activist organization is up and running. MIT’s Trust the Science Conference did its best to keep yesterday’s COVID malefactors in the news. And remember that fringe epidemiologist all the Experts™ tried to run out of town? MIT rolled out the red carpet so potential grant recipients could kiss his butt.

Advancing Viewpoint Diversity?

Nah. Not any time soon. That would be asking too much.