We certainly know what killed Colin Powell. His weakened immune system was unable to withstand the assault of a powerful virus, despite the efforts of those around him to…
“I hope I didn't sound too much down on teaching. I enjoy it. And it is not a great deal of work right now. But it’s really not a…
Early last March I drove from the Big Ten university, where I taught for forty years, to Bedford, Indiana, where I had been asked to talk to a high school…
In higher education, as in so many other areas of our lives, the COVID-19 virus has turned the world upside down. At least in the short term the impossible has…
[For some time two concerns have hovered in the back of my consciousness: the total inability of contemporary culture to generate visions of a positive future and the absence of…
I have spent a significant amount of my life in faculty meetings. Time that might have been spent in meaningful activity. Hours that will never be returned to me.…
The look of utter horror on the faces of my luncheon companions was only visible for an instant, before they reestablished their habitual control over their emotions. But in…