Stop “Making a Difference”

Among the many mindless mantras of our time, “making a difference” and “giving back” irritate me like chalk screeching across a blackboard. I would be scared to death to “make a difference” in the way pilots fly airliners or brain...

Academic Cesspools II

In last month’s column “Academic Cesspools,” I wrote about “Indoctrinate U,” a recently released documentary exposing egregious university indoctrination of young people at prestigious and not-so-prestigious universities...