Richard K. Vedder
The recent rather brutal attacks on some of America’s most prestigious universities by the president of the United States are…
I taught my first university class shortly before John F. Kennedy was assassinated in the fall of 1963, giving me…
If you put 50 randomly selected American academic economists in a room and ask them what they thought of raising…
The nation’s academic, political, and media elites often give the impression that nearly everything important in America comes out of…
All 13 presidents of the United States since Dwight D. Eisenhower have been college graduates. The years after high school…
One of the stronger arguments for public support of universities is that the creation of new knowledge improves the quality…
The two bitterly opposed presidential candidates, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, have tacitly agreed on how to deal with our…
The probability that the human race will be drastically reduced in magnitude has risen meaningfully in modern times. As an…
Jimmy Carter today becomes the first American president to live to be 100 years old. Presidential scholars mostly consider Carter…
