Day: August 11, 2025

What We Owe Graduates in the Age of the Great Slowdown

Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on RealClear Education on August 8, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. “I’m going to be in debt for my whole f—ing life. How does that even make sense? I signed up for this s— when I was […]

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In Praise of Idleness

They toil not, neither do they spin … Summer is the mischief in me—with its evenings steeped in honeyed indolence—and I wonder if I can put a notion in my readers’ heads, or at least a bit of a bias, in favor of idleness. Time was, defending idleness to academicians would have been like bringing […]

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