Higher Education Could Help Heal AmericaSeptember 12, 2023 at 9:15 am "College campuses, of all places, might help America shift the tone for the better," I write in a piece for Education Next surveying "the visionary higher-education leaders of today." "The headlines focusing on research fraud, racial preferences, and student debt are obscuring a more positive story. On a number of campuses, civility and community are on the rise, and there seem to be green shoots of optimism poking through," the article says. Please check the article out in full over at Education Next.
Regional BanksSeptember 8, 2023 at 9:56 am One of these Friday afternoons there's probably going to be a press release from the FDIC announcing another bank closure. The Wall Street Journal has been ramping up coverage of this, with a piece earlier this week ("Real Estate Doom Loop Threatens America's Banks") and another today ("Tiny Bank Called Republic First Faces Test of Depositors' Faith") with a Vernon Hill angle.
In Defense of the Defense IndustrySeptember 6, 2023 at 7:28 pm "In Defense of the Defense Industry" is the headline over my latest piece for the Wall Street Journal. Please check out the full column over at the Journal.
Why Peter Beinart and Bret Stephens Are Wrong About ChinaSeptember 6, 2023 at 4:56 pm "None Dare Call It Appeasement: A New Soft Line on China Emerges on the Left" is the headline over my latest New York Sun column. Please check out the full column over at the Sun.
What I Learned Editing Education NextAugust 30, 2023 at 9:11 am "What's happened over the past five years has made me more hopeful than ever about the future of American education," I write in a farewell column over at Education Next. Please check out the full column to find out "What's so encouraging that most people are failing to focus on?"
Where Is the Jacob Schiff of 2023?August 29, 2023 at 10:06 am The refugee crisis in New York City, and the opportunity for private philanthropic leadership, is the topic of my latest column for the New York Sun. Please check the full column out over at the Sun, where it is headlined, "Amid Crisis in New York, a Visionary Immigration Plan from 1907 Invites a New Look."
On Growth, Biden Gets One RightAugust 27, 2023 at 9:50 pm On Friday, President Biden spoke briefly with reporters in South Lake Tahoe, California, and gave his reaction to the first Republican presidential debate. "There was a lot of talk. But what are they going to do to deal with economic growth?" Biden said, according to a pool report of the event.
Jet Ski 200 Miles to FreedomAugust 25, 2023 at 8:56 am Kwon Pyong's courage is the topic of a dispatch from Seoul in the New York Times. It says the Chinese dissident fled across 200 miles of ocean aboard a Jet Ski-type personal watercraft to seek asylum in South Korea. According to the Times, "He had set off from the Shandong Peninsula with a helmet, a life jacket, a telescope and a compass, according to the Coast Guard. He also had five containers of fuel, which he'd tied to the watercraft and used to keep the tank filled during the 14-hour journey, the Coast Guard said." The Times says Kwon had "graduated from Iowa State University in 2014 with a degree in aerospace engineering" and quoted a New York City-based friend saying that Kwon "felt depressed living in China due to the autocracy and lack of freedom of speech."
Recent WorkAugust 24, 2023 at 4:44 pm "Eliminate Department of Education, Four Republican Presidential Candidates Say" (Education Next) "Massachusetts Teachers Union Aims to Eliminate Standardized Test as High-School Graduation Requirement" (Education Next) "Latest New York Times Target: Zionism at Jewish Sleepaway Camp" (Algemeiner)
A Job for Jared Kushner—And for TrumpAugust 23, 2023 at 2:30 pm "Trump Faces a Teachable Moment on Criminal Justice Reform" is the headline of my latest column for the New York Sun. Please check out the full column over at the Sun.
Outgoing Ivy League Presidents Get Sweetheart Home-Loan DealsAugust 23, 2023 at 9:25 am The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on a low-interest loan that the University of Pennsylvania approved to Amy Gutmann as she was leaving the university's presidency. (She's now President Biden's U.S. ambassador to Germany after having set Biden up as a professor at Penn):
This sort of deal is apparently somewhat frequent for outgoing university presidents: "Columbia gave its recently departed president, Lee Bollinger, a $6 million home loan, tax records show. The former president of the University of Southern California, C.L. Max Nikias, also got one for $3 million."
GhoutaAugust 21, 2023 at 2:49 pm The following press statement from the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, crossed the wire this afternoon, with the subject line "Tenth Anniversary of the Ghouta, Syria, Chemical Weapons Attack":
God and Man at YaleAugust 19, 2023 at 9:04 pm The September 2023 issue of Harper's carries a letter from Kathryn Lofton, identified as a professor of religious studies and American studies at Yale (she's also dean of humanities in Yale's faculty of arts and sciences). She writes:
Vivek's Vietnam SyndromeAugust 18, 2023 at 4:41 pm Republican Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy stopped by Tucker Carlson's Twitter-based (sorry, "X, formerly known as Twitter, -based") television show this week for an interview that exposed the flaws in the candidacy that nationally is third in the RealClearPolitics average. It was a disappointing, verging on disqualifying, outing, both in substance and in style. In substance, Ramaswamy signaled that on foreign policy, he'd be worse than Biden or Obama. "We have no discernable national interest at issue in Ukraine," Ramaswamy said. "We are on our way to Ukraine turning into another Iraq or Vietnam all over again."
Ken Griffin's StatementAugust 17, 2023 at 9:37 am From a Bloomberg news article about Citadel founder Ken Griffin lobbying to dial back Florida legislation that, in its initial form, would have imposed sweeping restrictions on Chinese ownership of real estate, comes this statement from Griffin: "I care deeply about individual rights and freedom, economic policies that encourage prosperity and upward mobility, all children having access to a high-quality education, ensuring our communities are safe, and a strong national defense."
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