Rikki Schlott

Rikki Schlott

Rikki Schlott is a columnist at the New York Post.

Background

Rikki 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). She covers higher education, women's issues, freedom of speech, and popular culture.

Latest Articles

Fundraiser set up for Austin Metcalf's alleged killer shows how inhumane society has become

Karmelo Anthony allegedly stabbed another teen in the heart — and for that he and his family have been rewarded with $455,000.

Kids' education suffered irreversible damage during COVID pandemic lockdowns – new book holds media, pols accountable

Kids are still suffering the consequences of endless school closures — and David Zweig doesn’t want that catastrophic policy failure to get memory-holed.

Young people are converting to Catholicism en masse — driven by pandemic, internet, 'lax' alternatives

"I was such a workaholic, but during the pandemic, I started thinking and revisiting my criticisms of Christianity,” she said Sydney Johnston, one of many young Catholic converts.

Teen tech whiz kid with 4.0 GPA made $30M off his startup last year — but he was still rejected by 15 colleges

A near perfect GPA and test scores — plus founding a business pulling in $30 million annually — isn’t enough to woo college counselors these days. At least that’s what...

 Inside the fanatical Reddit world — complete with cakes, cross-stitch and fan fiction — devoted to alleged killer Luigi Mangione

"This is what it took for me to recognize I have to be better as a person,” on Luigi Mangione supporter claimed of the accused killer's impact.

Elite Harvard University is now offering remedial math classes -- here's how this mess started

Owing to weak testing skills, Harvard is now offering remedial math.

Disqualified fencer speaks out after dropping out of competition rather than face trans athlete: 'I don't want to get hurt'

“When I first started this was unfathomable ... ” Stephanie Turner told The Post of competing against trans opponents. “Men do fence a lot harder than women and I don't...

Teens are losing their minds over college rejections — we need to give them some perspective

It might not feel true when you’re a senior in high school, but you absolutely are so much more than the school you go to.

Columbia University faces new trouble as top admissions consultant says students won't accept offers — 'brand has been tarnished'

"This would not have been the case three years ago,” Christopher Rim said after 10 Command Education clients were accepted to Columbia's Class of ’29 — and not a single one...

Hacker claims responsibility for replacing NYU’s website with apparent test scores, racial epithet

A dark web user has claimed responsibility for briefly hacking NYU's website and replacing it with what appeared to be test scores and an apparent racial epithet.

How Columbia fueled anti-Israel campus chaos by 'cherry-picking' students who were 'really, really, really into social justice activism’

“Columbia essentially did this to themselves,” college admissions expert Christopher Rim told The Post.

Influencers are making big money selling leftover videos — ones not yet posted online — to train AI

As the race to train AI on unique content heats up, a new company wants to pay for years-old video sitting on your hard drive.

Maine rep banned for posting about trans athlete slams state's woke leaders, sues over free speech violation

“It was a bad move politically for the Democrat majority to censure me for speaking up for Maine girls,” Laurel Libby told The Post.

High school seniors reject Columbia over campus chaos: 'Why would you want to go there?'

While an acceptance letter from Columbia was once cause for celebration, now it’s cause for trepidation.

Trump is right to defund schools that allow illegal protests — but must protect free speech

It should never have gotten to this point. But colleges are so unable to corral their own kids that President Trump is stepping in to do it for them.

Whiz kid offered Google job out of high school but got rejected by 16 colleges —now he's suing for discrimination

Stanley Zhong was a near perfect college applicant. Then almost every college rejected him.

A book about the media cover-up of Biden's decline is a great idea ... But should CNN's Jake Tapper write it?

This absolutely is a book that needs to be written. But Jake Tapper just isn’t the man for the job.

Hookup culture, dating apps destroying teen girls' self-esteem, says author offering a 'New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century'

“I speak to young women, and the only sex they've ever had has been casual sex,” Louise Perry told The Post.

Gen Zers says antidepressants have ruined their sex lives: 'I'm dead inside'

Young people are experiencing distressing symptoms of sexual dysfunction and emotional numbness following antidepressant usage.

Vivek Ramaswamy tells The Post his plan to make Ohio great again: School choice and investment in industry

The 39-year-old Republican officially threw his hat into his home state's gubernatorial race.