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...
Trump's not wrong: higher education skews liberal. The need, however, is not to make higher education more conservative or more liberal but to make it more responsive and responsible....
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...
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?...
Research shows trust in the news media has shattered for many reasons, most of which are not under its control; only those whose trust was abused and challenged can restore it for all...
During his tenure as President at the beginning of the twentieth century, Theodore Roosevelt became known for “trust-busting.” In the 21st, this expression has taken on a new meaning...
The spirit of '76 seems to be upon us, and with the installation of a new Pope, the spirit of humanity from time immemorial as well...
We like to talk about perfect storms in the 21st century. In the case of AI, "perfect" doesn't look like the right word to be using, nor do we know yet how big a storm it's going to be...
America has long been the world's leading repository for hope. Now, when hope has become the hardest it's been to come by for a long, long time, one of the world's leading faiths has chosen an American to lead it for the very first...
"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately" --Ben Franklin...
