Showing posts with label Zach Wood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zach Wood. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Guest Column by Zachary R. Wood '18: Hillary Clinton's Behavior


WASHINGTON, DC - Hillary Rodham’s well-disguised family weapon — Clinton Foundation — enjoys strategically investing and manipulating cutting edge technology to plant powerful resources in fertile soils of medical health-science, artificial intelligence and highly malleable neurological software.

Clinton Foundation — marred often by Hillary weak or in defeat — suffers blistering criticism from observant critics across the globe. Some call Clinton Foundation a slush fund or demonstrate its unscrupulous tactics and dealmaking. Others focus on range of suspicious activity and possibility of criminal conflict. Note also two notable challenges to integrity of the foundation:

1) The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2016 public corruption probe of Clinton Foundation financial expediture; access and donation intermingling.

2) Boston Globe’s editorial board urged the foundation to stop accepting donations of any kind for remainder of her beaten 2016 campaign and shut down entirely if Hillary Clinton had won a presidential election.

What is worse? Bill Clinton’s sleaze and sewage pride, but necessarily that evisceration calls for a vivid book proposal I might explore next year.

For time being, I will comment on Ms. Clinton’s behavior and openly encourage writers and journalists to thoroughly interrogate Hillary Clinton’s use and intent in using state-of-the-art technology.

Hillary is the most maligned presidential loser in American history.

Distilling my own impression: She’s a grating woman incapable of discovering sexual interest in her husband; this woman who, for some reason, married a philandering man who feels nauseous at the thought of their intercourse.

What else? Briefly, Hillary is stiff on the stump, curtly arrogant, clueless on social cues; more obviously fake in her every attempt to relate to people. Rodham frustrates because she feigns political adequacy and her deficits breed self-delusion: It’s like Hillary expects applause from all of her Black rapper friends.

I don’t know. I’ve been reading about new technology lately, talking to family, and researching personal experience. My careful review should aim at Hillary Clinton. Novel invisible technology can be designed and used to control cognitive function, trigger cerebrovascular and cardiovascular obstruction — and inflict penile and testicular pain by castration.

I want to know what Hillary Clinton thinks about these excruciating tech capabilities. I want to know if she has access to or has acquired these technologies.

Does she use them?

I want to know if Hillary Clinton embodies so many physical properties of pig manure that she might ever rationalize castrating, say, a former Clinton supporter who grew tired of her abuse and tried to expose her ruthless cruelty.

My hope is that thoughtful scholars and journalists may consider looking into Hillary Clinton’s history of exacting revenge on her political enemies, and people they care about.

Finally — I will think of a woman I care about who knows Hillary Clinton. I do consider close study of every legal means by which I and other American citizens can pressure Ms. Rodham.

There are more details and links to significant online resources in the original article, see https://medium.com/@zacharyw548/media-note-hillary-clintons-behavior-d11b1d16257e

Zachary R. Wood is an assistant curator at TED, as well as a former columnist and assistant opinion editor at The Guardian, a former Robert L. Bartley Fellow at The Wall Street Journal, and a class of 2018 graduate of Williams College. He is the author of Uncensored (Random House, 2019). 


Monday, May 18, 2020

Justice at Last: Free Speech Conqueror Zach Wood '18 Continues to Unload on Adam Falk

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - The most famous and bravest Williams College graduate in a decade, Zach Wood '18, continues to pour fire and brimstone on Adam Falk, the school's disgraced ex-president.

In a new article in The College Fix, Zach shared with editor Jennifer Kabbany the motivations for releasing his newest story on the shaby treatment he received as a free speech activist at the hands of the Falk administration. 

In an email to The College Fix, Wood explained why he is telling this story now.
He said he chose to focus his book more on student backlash to free speech and the broader intellectual arguments at stake, but that more recently “powerful leaders have threatened and tried to intimidate and humiliate people I care about and I want to be fully involved in defending them and the values I believe in.”
“… I want to highlight why freedom of the press is personal for me, and underscore that I have a dog in the fight,” Wood said. “I am fully engaged and I am determined to win. Censorship has no place in our democracy.”
Wood said his piece in NAS aimed to highlight Falk’s “propensity to misrepresent the state of affairs.”
“Leaders who distort the truth like that tend to use intimidation to silence those who criticize them. I want to drill in the point that we should intensely oppose and resist these leaders,” Wood said.
You can read up on the full extent of Adam Falks devious efforts to halt freedom of speech at Williams College in Zach's recent article for the National Association of Scholars.

Zach Wood has had an outstanding experience since his graduation from Williams College. As you may know, he is an Assistant Curator at TED, a former columnist and Assistant Opinion Editor at The Guardian, and a former Robert L. Bartley Fellow at The Wall Street Journal. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, HuffPost, The Nation, The Weekly Standard, Times Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed. In 2017, he gave Senate testimony opposing the recent string of college speaker disinvitations and in defense of viewpoint diversity. He’s planning to attend law school in the not too distant future, according to Steven Hayward at the Power Line Blog.

John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist and a former Williams College professor. He is an occasional contributor at American Thinker, Breitbart, Front Page, PJMedia and WND.

Commander of Free Speech, Zach Wood '18, Guest Hosts The Power Line Show

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - I was proud to see Zach Wood, easily one of Williams College's bravest and most talented students, got a chance to guest host the Power Line Show. You can hear it by clicking on the audio link established in this Power Line article. While you are at it, check out this glowing introduction from Power Line's Steve Hayward:

This episode flips the usual format, with my guest interviewing me for a change. I first took note of Zachary Wood when he was an undergraduate of Williams College. He was the president of a student group called “Uncomfortable Learning,” whose mission was to invite to campus outside speakers with a heterodox perspective (which is code for “conservative” for the most part). Invitees included Charles Murray, Christina Hoff Sommers, David French, John Christy, and others. For this transgression against campus orthodoxy, Zach was dressed down by the president of William College, and further instructed that he should “be careful” about what he wrote in the student newspaper—a story he tells in this article published recently by the National Association of Scholars.

From this experience Zach has understandably became concerned about free speech generally, and freedom of the press in particular, and when Zach told me that he was interested in recording some interviews and conversations with people (starting with me) on free speech and free press issues, but didn’t yet have an online platform ready to launch, I decided to offer him an episode of the Power Line Show to start things rolling and get some practice. As journalism was my first career right out of college back around the time of the Boer War, we thought it would be fun and informative to go through some long-term perspectives on modern media.

Zachary R. Wood is an Assistant Curator at TED, a former columnist and Assistant Opinion Editor at The Guardian, and a former Robert L. Bartley Fellow at The Wall Street Journal. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, HuffPost, The Nation, The Weekly Standard, Times Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed. In 2017, he gave Senate testimony opposing the recent string of college speaker disinvitations and in defense of viewpoint diversity. He’s planning to attend law school in the not too distant future.

Monday, May 11, 2020

Zach Wood '18 Free Speech Hero Drops Bombshell: A Senior Official at Williams College Threatened Me

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - I had a good talk with an extraordinary young man late last week, Williams College alumni Zachary R. Wood '18. As Williams Liberty readers may recall, Wood is the incredibly brave political science major who clashed with disgraced Williams College president Adam Falk over the issue of bringing conservative speakers to campus including the genial, but controversial John Derbyshire.

In a shocking new revelation, Wood reports that he was threatened by an unnamed Williams College official during the peak moments of the conflict. He writes: 
Speaking to the official I regularly confronted, I thoughtfully expressed my sharp focus on writing and exposing Adam’s attempts to keep me under his thumb.
The official — who would interrupt me frequently and bloviate to subvert my questions — planted both hands firmly on his desk, rose from his seat, and facing me, leaned forward.
“Zach, Adam Falk is the president of this college,” he said. “He’s the boss and I’ve spoken with him. You best be careful what you write about how you disagree with him. Is that clear to you?”
“I understand what you want me to do,” I replied.
After walking out of his office, I wrote down what he said to me and elected to write about his mistake at a later time. 
The stunning revelation appears in an article Wood wrote for the National Association of Scholars which was published on May 6, 2020. In time, I suspect there will be much more attention focused on his disturbing report. 

Apparently, the time to reveal this ugly situation is now appropriate. It comes at a time when the public is especially sensitive to the abuse of authority and the harsh treatment of political opponents, chiefly the treatment of General Flynn at the hands of the Obama administration. 

In Wood's article, he also discusses the petty mistreatment and disrespect he absorbed as a student at Williams College. He blames the ex-president Falk for turning him into a campus enemy. 

All in all, however, it looks like Wood has had the last laugh. Adam Falk is now gone. Remembered, it at all, as an immature failure, scarred by horrifying mistakes including naming a residence hall after an abusive alumni couple who mistreated their au pairs. Meanwhile, Zach Wood has become one of the school's most famous alumni and a sought after speaker on the topic of free speech. He is also the author of a well-received bookUncensored: My Life and Uncomfortable Conversations at the Intersection of Black and White America, Penguin Random House, (2019).

Wood was a former Robert L. Bentley Fellow at The Wall Street Journal, and graduated from Williams in the spring of 2018 as a Herbert H. Lehman Scholar with a degree in political science. He currently works as an Assistant Opinion Editor of The Guardian.

The full article below the break.