In the May issue of Academic Questions, published by the National Association of Scholars, is this item: A large number of higher education employment ads have been including the following language—“We invite applications from qualified candidates who share our commitment to diversity”. An NAS member who drew attention to this development wonders if that wording […]
Archives for June 2006
It’s Time to Stop the Nonsense
“The upshot of the changes ahead is that Americans are now, and increasingly will become, less secure than they believe themselves to be. The reason is that we may not recognize many of the threats to our future….They may consist, too, of an unraveling of the fabric of national identity itself…..Democracy may be hollowed out […]
Lessons from Enron Revisited
A couple of months ago, Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal had the following striking headline to his weekly essay—“Barry Bonds, Please Meet Andrew Fastow”—a clear reference to the common thread that runs through the fraud manifest in both cases. The point is that there is a condition that transcends enforcement and prosecutorial methods […]