Richard K. Vedder
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…
These are not the greatest times for university faculty and nonacademic staff. Falling enrollments have squeezed budgets at many schools,…
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…
