With the escalation of both rhetoric and actions by the Trump administration (and facial hair sprouting like it's 1859), the unthinkable has peeked over our horizon like a rogue planet...

21 October, 2025

On the eve of our 250th anniversary of the founding of our country, our President is trying to turn back the clock to 1775 for our system of government, by setting us against each other; expecting to rise, triumphant, out of the ashes of what...

09 October, 2025

"With liberty and justice for all." A pledge we've all made to this country hundreds, if not thousands of times. But these days, some of those who govern us don't seem to have much allegiance to it...

17 September, 2025

If the Trump administration sometimes looks like a political version of Animal House, the highest court in the land increasingly seems to be running its own Animal Farm, in which some people are more equal than others...

11 September, 2025

Up until January 20, 2025, our colleges and universities were among the most important institutions maintaining our leadership in the world.  Since then, they've been the target of relentless attacks, some of which may be justified...

19 August, 2025

Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented, unwarranted attack on higher education, but truth be told, higher ed has been doing plenty of self-harm for quite some time now...

05 August, 2025

Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari has argued that our ability to trust--and be trusted--at a distance has made us the dominant species on earth. The remarkable level of faith shown here should be our North Star--can we reach it?...

01 August, 2025
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