Richard K. Vedder
Just as airlines reward high spending customers with perks such as flight upgrades and special airport lounges, so the Trump…
It is universally acknowledged that American higher education is in trouble. Enrollment is lower than 15 years ago, college campuses…
A couple of weeks ago, Steve Moore and I revealed in this space that Census Bureau data shows that native-born…
While the Big Beautiful budget bill recently enacted into law has a multiplicity of good, bad, and benign features, the…
Aside from war threats in the Middle East, the two biggest domestic public policy challenges in the early summer of…
American faith in its colleges and universities has undergone a sharp decline, manifested in a spectacular fashion at the national…
The current turmoil in American higher education has particularly hit the Ivy League hard. Leaders of schools like Harvard and…
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…
