I would not be here if I weren't persuaded by 20 years of walking around campuses and seeing this.

I wouldn't be persuaded to be here if it wasn't for 20 years of being on campuses and seeing this.

For me, walking has become less physical transit than mental transportation. It is engaging. I have become, I fear, a difficult walking companion, liable to slow down and point at things. I can turn this off, but I love to have it on: a sense of wonder that I, and we all, have a predisposition to but have forgotten to enjoy.

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

There was England. And then there was the United States. If the pacifist betrayers of the West had not been so powerful in the 1930s and Western governments had confronted Hitler early, 70 million lives would have been saved. Americans would do well to remember this now.

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.