The Fox Panel Goes Right In Last night’s Gutfeld! segment did what cable panels do best: it took a strange campus story and turned the volume up until the walls complained. Greg Gutfeld blasted a University of Regina professor after the professor said he wanted to do “sexual orientation” work with children as young as kindergarten age. Kat Timpf pushed the basic question that adults keep dodging: if children are showing up with new identity labels, who is shaping that talk in the first place? https://twitter.com/JustBins/status/2042468068077580388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw The clip was less a policy seminar than a reminder that schools are now where every culture fight goes to find a microphone. The Pronoun Puzzle Gets Stranger The professor at the center of the story is j wallace skelton, an assistant professor of queer studies in education at the University of Regina. A New York Post report said skelton asked to be referred to by the full name, written in lowercase, instead of by he, she, or they. The Facebook header reportedly reads “lower case letters please,” which is one way to announce that ordinary language has once again been asked to sit quietly in the corner. The same reporting says skelton’s work…

Vance Heads Into the Talks Vice President JD Vance left for Islamabad, Pakistan, to help lead the Trump administration’s negotiations with Iran, as officials try to keep a fragile ceasefire from wobbling into a larger mess. Vance said the White House has “a lot of leverage,” including economic and military pressure, and warned that Iran would face “serious consequences” if it failed to keep its side of any deal. He also said the United States does not want Iran to gain the ability to build a nuclear weapon, or keep enriching fuel toward that goal. In other words, the message was not subtle, which is often the most honest thing anyone in foreign policy says all week. Who Is Traveling With Him According to Axios, Vance is not making the trip alone. He is joined by Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, along with staff from the National Security Council and officials from the State and Defense Departments. One U.S. official told Axios, “This is a big deal for JD. He is going to the Super Bowl,” which is an unusually cheerful way to describe nuclear diplomacy, but Washington does love a dramatic metaphor almost as much as it…