Rikki Schlott
About the Columnist
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 podcast. She covers higher education, women's issues, freedom of speech, and popular culture.
The Archive
Undecided voters unimpressed with Biden, Trump after first presidential debate: 'Considering voting third party'
June 29, 2024 | 5:50amThe Post talked to undecided voters in battleground states and got their reaction to the face-off — and Biden’s shocking performance.
As an independent voter and Gen-Z woman, here's what I want to hear from Donald Trump
June 27, 2024 | 6:30amAt Thursday's debate, Donald Trump can court disillusioned young voters by leaning into the economy and immigration — while quelling our fears that he's too divisive.
Self-immolating serviceman Aaron Bushnell is an alarm for the online radicalization of American kids
June 24, 2024 | 5:30pmThe 25-year-old serviceman's political trajectory, propelled by social media and internet rabbit holes, is one that young men can fall into online.
These Gen Z 20somethings were raised progressive — but they won't be voting for Biden
June 23, 2024 | 7:00am“I was your typical Tumblr leftist, and I was raised on gender theory through social media,” says Becky Oliveira — who now plans to vote for Donald Trump.
It's vile that girls are followed by men on social media — but why do parents let them be influencers?
June 18, 2024 | 3:30pmDon't want your teenagers followed by creepy older men on social media? Stop enabling it.
Bill Gates' great $1B commitment to nuclear energy should be a wake-up call to climate progressives
June 18, 2024 | 7:00amNuclear power could be America's saving grace — if progressive activists would stop kneecapping its spread. Bill Gates is smartly fighting back with his wallet.
My kids were kicked out of Catholic school — after being too patriotic
June 13, 2024 | 9:36amA California mom says administrators took issue with her teen son's vocal love of America.
We're libertarians who refuse to vote for the party's ridiculous presidential candidate
June 10, 2024 | 4:51pmLibertarian candidate Chase Oliver has advocated for open borders and defunding the police and defended gender-affirming care for transgender kids as “the status quo.”
Here's how Columbia University needs to draw the line between activism and discrimination
June 7, 2024 | 5:18pmThis week, Columbia University settled a lawsuit filed by a Jewish student who claimed the school failed to protect them. Now it's time for the school to educate students on...
As Ivy League prioritizes 'activism at expense of academics,' other schools rise to top for employers
June 6, 2024 | 5:39pmPost-October 7th, employers are scrambling to find new hires from schools that didn’t devolve into protest chaos.
If a remote Amazon tribe got addicted to social media in just nine months, none of us stand a chance
June 6, 2024 | 9:59amTech is so pervasive that it’s easy to forget a time before we all got hooked on our devices. That’s what makes it so depressing to see the same fate...
The new campus protest trend? Pop-up summer camp, as anti-Israel group vows, 'We will be back'
June 3, 2024 | 4:21pmPro-Palestine protesters erected another encampment on Columbia's campus and disrupted Alumni Weekend. Now they're vowing to continue a "summer of disruption."
DEI is finally dying in the US — and response to Oct. 7 Hamas attacks highlighted its hypocrisy
May 29, 2024 | 5:09pmCompanies like Meta, Lyft, Home Depot and Wayfair have all slashed their DEI teams by 50% or more.
It doesn't get much more dystopian than relying on AI to solve your dating life
May 27, 2024 | 10:38amDating? There's an AI app for that. But there's no way a matchmaking algorithm can solve the mysteries of human chemistry.
Bill Maher admits he goes hard on fellow liberals — 'because they got a lot crazier'
May 21, 2024 | 6:00am"There are a lot of bad ideas on the left," Bill Maher told The Post in an interview about his new book “What This Comedian Said Will Shock You" — before...
Harvard, UC Berkeley are teaching students that you win at life by being obnoxious
May 15, 2024 | 5:43pmAfter both Harvard and UC Berkeley capitulated to anti-Israel protests this week, it seems students were right to believe that they actually run things.
Columbia prez showed her true colors when she voted on campus free speech
May 14, 2024 | 6:00amShafik had a chance to strike a blow for free speech at English universities in the country's House of Lords — and failed.
Columbia Law students demand passing grades after protests. Blame coddling schools
May 8, 2024 | 6:00amColumbia Law students want their final exams canceled… in the name of Palestine.
Columbia's president preached the elite's pieties about protest 'reordering society.' Look what she got
May 7, 2024 | 6:00amMinouche Shafik thought protests would achieve a "new paradigm" and "reorder our societies." Looks like she got more than she bargained for.
Two university staffers among 44 anti-Israel protesters arrested inside barricaded Columbia building
May 3, 2024 | 12:12pmThirteen of the individuals nabbed in the massive NYPD raid had no formal connection with the university.