by jstewardfree | Jun 21, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Elias Crim | Are you tired of the “trifecta” metaphor about the three current Washington scandals as yet? I won’t even ask if you’re tired of the Benghazi, IRS or AP scandals themselves. Not because they have no significance. But because they are only the latest...
by jstewardfree | Jun 19, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Rich Tucker | People line up to go to the Apple store, but can’t stand waiting in line at the DMV. That’s because consumers love good products and good service. Businesses tend to provide reasons for lining up, while governments simply force us to. So for years...
by jstewardfree | Jun 17, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Arthur Herman | The median pay for public-college presidents is now $441,392, with four presidents being paid more than $1 million a year. Despite the growing evidence that colleges and universities cost too much, deliver too little and push too many young people...
by jstewardfree | Jun 14, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Nathan Harden | Once upon a time college was for things like learning and job training — shaping of the mind. Nowadays, you can get so much more — like shaping of the genitals. Gender-reassignment surgery is the latest luxury item to be added to the bloated list of...
by jstewardfree | Jun 12, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Michael Sacasas | Some brief thought on the Programmable World (in which ubiquitous wireless sensors make objects and machines “smart”): The envisioned Programmable World, as Bill Wasik has called it, is a tremendously sophisticated time- and labor-saving...
by jstewardfree | Jun 10, 2013 | Grey Matter
By John Mark Reynolds | The Wall Street Journal, noting the retirement of Donald Kagan, states the obvious: higher education is broken. Its brokenness begins with the faculty. College is expensive, dominated by faculty unions, and hostile to moral education. Higher...
