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Richard Vedder
Richard Vedder is Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus at Ohio University, a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, and a board member of the National Association of Scholars. His latest book is
Let Colleges Fail: The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education
December 15, 2025
College Sports Have Outgrown the Schools That Made Them
October 22, 2025
America’s Most Exceptional Folly
October 8, 2025
Some Observations on New College Rankings
October 6, 2025
Confessions of a Former College Ranker
September 8, 2025
‘Fight Fiercely, Harvard. Fight! Fight! Fight!’
August 25, 2025
Alongside Rage and Despair, a Quiet Revival of Religion and Restraint Is Reshaping Student Life
August 8, 2025
Why Are People Fleeing Highly Educated States?
August 8, 2025
Colleges Ignored Their Prophets—Now They Pay the Price
July 14, 2025
‘In the Long Run, We Are All Dead’
June 30, 2025
Professors Work Less Than You Think—and Students Pay the Price
May 29, 2025
Student Loans and the Faint Hope of Reform
May 7, 2025
Reform Federal Student Lending!
April 22, 2025
Fight DEI’s Campus Jihad at Friday’s Academic Freedom Event
March 24, 2025
Can Golf Forestall Albright College’s Creative Destruction?
March 8, 2025
The Department of Education—To Be, or Not to Be, That Is the Question
March 5, 2025
The Anti-Woke Counterrevolution Begins
February 26, 2025
‘Mr. Mellon Is Turning in His Grave’: The Mellon Foundation Is Reinterpreting American History and Monuments
February 24, 2025
A Very Short History of American Universities, 1636-2025
February 13, 2025
Universities Are Profiting Off Federal Research Grants at Taxpayers’ Expense—Trump Reforms Could Curb the Abuse
January 27, 2025
A Buckeye Collegiate Revolution: Higher Education Reform Bill Likely to Pass Senate
January 21, 2025
Do Ivy League Degrees Matter for Leadership Success?
December 31, 2024
Jimmy Carter: A Decent Man, a Damaging Education Policy
December 10, 2024
A Great Trump Appointment: Jay Bhattacharya (Part 2)
December 9, 2024
A Great Trump Appointment: Jay Bhattacharya (Part 1)
November 19, 2024
Colleges and the Dumbing Down of America
October 24, 2024
Cheaters, Liars, and Robbers: A Higher Education Crisis
October 15, 2024
Just Say No to Discrimination
September 24, 2024
Penn’s Shameful Sanction of Amy Wax: A Blow to Free Speech and Academic Freedom
September 24, 2024
Higher Ed’s Fate in 2024
August 21, 2024
Ending the Leftist Think Monopoly on Campus
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