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Background on the New Academy, and Questions for Bill Galston
The proposed Public Service Academy would be America's "first national civilian university" dedicated to producing "leaders of character" who would...
Help Harvard Spend Its Endowment: Part Two
UD has already proposed that Harvard relieve itself of the guilty burden of a forty billion dollar endowment by giving...
Southern Illinois University an Official Laughingstock
UD hesitates to declare any university a laughingstock -- there are always plenty of smart, hard-working, good people at any...
Coach Langston Cast Down to the Bowels of Hell
Your university's football season is almost here! To get you in the mood, UD will be running some noteworthy gridiron...
The Oregon Trial
The University of Oregon, a once-proud school, is proceeding briskly toward the status of Oklahoma State, a third-tier football factory...
Malcolm Lowry Postmortem
For some of us -- a small number -- Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano is the ultimate novel. "Lowry's book...
Dynes Dines
When universities, and university systems, become very rich and very byzantine, it's both hard to run them and easy to...
Bitch, Ph.D.
I've taken for my title the great name of a great blog, Bitch, Ph.D., because this post will be a...