What No Graduates Will Hear
Will we tell our young people what they need most to hear? If not, nothing else we say or do will stop our suicidal collapse.
Are American Colleges Cheating Students?
American colleges and universities, widely admired throughout the world, have come under heavy fire in recent years. Critics complain that costs are too high, that too many professors shirk their classroom duties, that leftist indoctrination and political correctness are rampant, that breadth of knowledge requirements are minimal, that graduation rates are low, and that employment … Read more
Graduation 2011
Two years ago, I wrote a column for this site titled “Graduation 2009.” As I come to the end of this scholastic year, I would like to return to the same topic: What do college graduates learn before they graduate? Depending on the student and the faculty, the answer ranges from “not much” to “an … Read more
va.ca.tion: a period of sustained insanity, often cruelly referred to as “relaxation”
Clark Griswold himself would have been proud (and maybe even a trifle envious) of the way I spent the last ten days of my life. My family and I were subjected to privileged to spend 8+ hours on the side of a Wyoming road in 30 degree weather with two fewer tires than is generally considered … Read more
Unemployment and a proper view of the human person
As readers know, I live in Michigan. And our state is in one helluvan economic slump right now, due to a number of factors. Pundits continue to talk about what caused this, taking a macro view of our economic situation. I’d like to take a micro view – what unemployment and underemployment does to the … Read more