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Culture of Poverty

(Note to my readers: sorry about last week. Life intervened much more than I expected it to. Now, back to...

Potemkin Campuses

Do you know the story of the Potemkin Villages? Russian Minister Gregory Potyomkin allegedly ordered the building of fake villages...

Utility Poles

We don't notice infrastructure until it fails. In my case, I never noticed utility poles until I moved to a...

Parking Revelation

In coming back to my office from a University Lecture, I cut through a main administrative parking lot. The lot...

Cyberbullying or Institutional Overreaction?

A reader alerted me to this article in the New Haven Register because of its pertinence to the continuing discussion...

Pro and con

In advance of election day, I got into a conversation with a bunch of folks around the topic of conservatism...

The BP paradox: 100% market driven with state controls

English (rather than British) higher education is presently digesting the report by Lord Browne, the ex-boss of BP, called Securing...

Team Effort

For this English professor, one of the surprises of becoming a college president has been the extent of engagement with...