College Fees
As the Executive-Director of a foundation which for many years has assisted young people to attend college, I have developed a distaste for the manner in which the purveyors of “higher education” conduct themselves when it comes to … money! And there is no question that the vast percentage of “our” students regard colleges with […]
PLEASE LIST ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE SWEETER
When there are nine crazies at our Senior Center basketball outings, we have one team with five players, rotating them in order to play four-on-four. This is interesting, but irrelevant. Equally unimportant is that when we have a substitute because of the above situation, we play to 11 baskets instead of 8. What is crucial […]
Capitalism
Many critics of the American economic system have an inch-deep understanding of its history. At the same time, they always have a long list of political “devils,” those individuals with whom they are in disagreement and who, by definition, are behind all negative policy decisions. In the 20th century, the average standard-of-living increased many-fold and […]