Today’s college aged Americans are probably the first generation in American history that knows less about important consequential things than their parents or grandparents. This was reconfirmed recently in a new study commissioned by the American Council of Trustees and…
Why the outburst of campus protests in recent years, culminating in the sizable and sometimes violent demonstrations at such prestigious universities as Harvard, Columbia, Northwestern, and Stanford? While many factors are at work, one that seldom gets mentioned: boredom. Students…
The legendary President of the University of Chicago during much of the first half of the last century, Robert Hutchins, once said (according to Joseph Epstein in his great new memoir Never Say You Had a Lucky Life) that “football…
With all the attention focused on President Joe Biden’s recent speech at Morehouse College, an historically black college and university (HBCU), it is amazing that Biden completely ignored the need for Morehouse in the first place. Morehouse was founded in…
The Left’s Hamas embrace shows that a creation culture complements the Left’s cancel culture. While the latter is recognized, the former is overlooked. Not satisfied with nullifying its opponents, the Left also vivify victims according to its subjective worldview. Between…
My previous four installments in this series have proposed, inter alia, that (i) laws be enacted like those of FIRREA to hold university trustees and directors personally and individually liable in tort, for compensatory and punitive damages, for misfeasance and nonfeasance; (ii) there be…
It doesn’t matter if you’re a journalist, a health nut, or the average American trying to make a winning point in an argument; you’ve likely uttered the words: “There’s a study that says…” Even those of us who harbor doubts…
It’s graduation season, and that means universities, already embroiled in controversy, are trying to avoid creating more during graduation ceremonies. The Ohio State University thought it would be safe to ask alumnus and social entrepreneur Chris Pan to give this…
How many fields of pursuit in America come with a guarantee that the employee can never be fired? Owners typically cannot be fired, but corporate boards of directors often fire CEOs who come in with poor results. Sports managers and coaches…
