In recent years, I’ve seen a number of articles about an imminent “crisis” in U. S. Higher education: enrollment is declining, they say, while costs keep going up; small colleges are on the brink; student loan debt is crushing a generation; it’s worse for poor and minority students . . . It can’t go on … Continue reading College Closures: Are the Wolves Coming? The British?
The Fair Wendy and I on date night. . . Down here we Don’t Say “Pay” for hurricane cleanup . . . 33333 But we’ll keep the Bible, including the story about Noah and his daughters, and Solomon’s 700 (or so) wives and 300 (more or less) concubines . . . And … Continue reading More Weekend Cartoons: Half Political/Half Not
The gap between the freedoms and opportunities enjoyed by the system’s affiliated elite and those of ordinary Iranians has never been so wide — and never have so many people expressed so much anger about it. This fundamental repudiation of the system is what makes these protests so different from other restive moments in Iran’s … Continue reading Quote of the Weekend: Iran Women’s Resistance
[NOTE: I thought I was finished with apocalyptic cartoons about the Supreme Court, which just started open season — err, opened its annual season of judicial work. But editorial cartoonists had other ideas, many of them. I’ll hold off; though fear not, Friend reader, there were plenty of other apocalyptic cartoons on offer. . . … Continue reading Weekend Cartoons (Early Edition)
[NOTE: This opinion piece is an artifact of a senior Establishment pundit, who has jetted off to Poland to hang with his people and schmooze various bigwigs at a high-level international conference. Such junkets are a perk of his gig and class. I find it interesting and worth sharing because, to my continuing surprise, his … Continue reading Ukraine, a “New Europe,” and Strange Bedfellows Like Us