Higher education

   The crisis in higher education is much in the news.  I have been too busy to write much myself for awhile, but anyone interested in this topic will benefit from reading the following two articles.  The first, by the venerable Nicholas Lemann, deals with the Trump administration's confrontation with elite higher ed, and is well researched. The second, by an art professor at Purchase College, really calls a spade a spade, rather than referring to it metaphorically as a shovel, with respect to the decline of education within higher ed.  I disagree with the author on two points. I've never liked the phrase "the production of knowledge" and I think education should stimulate individual creativity, not help form a collective. But it's a great piece all the same.