Richard K. Vedder
So-called “higher” education is supposed to be all about truth, beauty, and progress, achieved through learning and discovery. “Truths” are…
For more than half a century, I have been studying and writing about human migration, both internal (i.e., movement of…
Today’s college aged Americans are probably the first generation in American history that knows less about important consequential things than…
Why the outburst of campus protests in recent years, culminating in the sizable and sometimes violent demonstrations at such prestigious…
The legendary President of the University of Chicago during much of the first half of the last century, Robert Hutchins,…
Writing in this space five months ago, I argued that an anti-woke counterrevolution was starting on American campuses. While that…
As I reflect upon a long life, one disturbing trend increasingly stands out: Americans seem to work less than they…
The news from Moscow is that Russia is likely to abandon the 13 percent flat-rate income tax enacted in 2000,…
More than 225 years ago, prominent English scholar and political economist Thomas Malthus made one of history’s most spectacularly wrong…
