As I recounted recently in the Wall Street Journal, 20 years ago Milton Friedman wrote me to say, after doing a complete analysis, he believed we should be taxing our universities rather than subsidizing them. The economics involved are pretty…
The commentariat has made much of the “diploma divide” and the purported propensity of college graduates to vote for Democrats. Most of their disquisitions suggest that Republicans are by definition intellectually stunted. Ironically, serious analyses of voter behavior suggest the…
Last week, teaching, for Thales College, one of the sequences of classes in Western Civilization, I and four students, by chance all of them young men, discussed Machiavelli’s The Prince. It is utterly refreshing when you know, from the start,…
Johns Hopkins University recently got caught with its hand in the DEI cookie jar when its chief diversity officer, Dr. Sherita H. Golden, in her January 2024 Monthly Diversity Digest newsletter listed “privilege” as the Diversity Word of the Month,…
As discussions of greatest-ever go, this one’s pretty clear-cut. There’s always room for debate — sports talk radio wouldn’t exist without it — but the best college football coach of all time (the GOAT) has to be the guy in…
The last Selection Sunday of the four-team College Football Playoff era went down pretty much according to chalk. Michigan’s inclusion everybody was certain of. Undefeated, ranked No. 1, conqueror of archrival Ohio State. Nobody for a moment doubted their bona…
I wrote about Bates College’s first two major leaguers, the first man to score a touchdown on historic Garcelon Field, and the first to blast a home run on that field (the ball rolled into a ditch). But all four…
Matthew Araiza won the Ray Guy Award in 2021. In 2022, he won the Bad Guy Award. After Araiza set the NCAA record for yards per punt at 51.19, the Buffalo Bills expended a 2022 sixth-round draft choice and bestowed…
We know from history that Jew-hatred, the world’s oldest and once again most fashionable form of bigotry, is the chameleon of all hates — forever taking on new hues to suit the scapegoating needs of the day. It has always…
