Richard K. Vedder
The recent lamentable travails afflicting American academia — falling public support, suppression of free expression, declining integrity of research as…
As I recounted recently in the Wall Street Journal, 20 years ago Milton Friedman wrote me to say, after doing…
The first 24 years of the 21st century have been the era of Woke Supremacy in our institutions of higher…
The Founding Father of this fount of worldly wisdom, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., has written a delightful new memoir (How…
College enrollments in the humanities have declined, even more than the general fall in the numbers attending college. West Virginia…
Writing in this space a few weeks ago, I argued that in several ways the United States is exhibiting characteristics…
Like many others, I have long sensed that the so-called best and most prestigious American universities were actually very poor…
For decades, I taught a course in European economic history that stressed the Industrial Revolution and its aftermath and spent…
Polling data confirm that Americans, in general, have a rather low opinion of their colleges and universities. They think they…
If recent reports are to be believed, academic crimes are on the rise. In a world with shrinking enrollments and…
