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Richard K. Vedder

Richard K. Vedder

Richard K. Vedder is a senior fellow at the Independent Institute, Oakland, California; distinguished professor of economics emeritus at Ohio University; and author of the book “Let Colleges Fail: The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education.”
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From around 2010 to the present, a woke supremacy took charge on many American college campuses, upending a traditional emphasis…

by | Apr 3, 2026

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by | Mar 13, 2026

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by | Feb 16, 2026

The famed editor of the New-York Tribune, Horace Greeley, said shortly after the end of the Civil War: “Go West,…

by | Jan 29, 2026

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by | Jan 2, 2026

Our nation, arising out of the American Revolution, was blessed with a disproportionate number of leaders with extraordinary accomplishments in…

by | Dec 1, 2025

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by | Nov 20, 2025

Some things never change: despite radical growth in technologically driven material abundance, humans today fundamentally exhibit the same characteristics of…

by | Oct 30, 2025

The highly progressive left-wing dominance on most college campuses has turned off not only the Trump administration but large portions…

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