In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one day everyone, o….

It is a commonplace observation that liberals believe in the perfectibility of man while conservatives believe in the endurance of original sin. Supe….

Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a c….

No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party tim….

The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding mor….

The fact is that some people are better than others - smarter, harder working, more learned, more productive, harder to replace..

A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing..

Ultimately it is the yearning to believe that anyone can be brought up to college level that has brought colleges down to everyone's level..

Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability..

In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success..

Opportunity does not need to be exactly equal. It needs only to exist. For the talented and motivated, that will be enough...The vital thing is not t….

One's worth and self-regard ought to come from individual competitive performance, not from group identity. Pride based on clan or tribal connections….

The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry..