Good teams, free student tickets, and stands more than half-empty. I think there’s a way to fill those seats, and any school can run it. Here’s the letter I wrote to my daughter’s school, ready to copy.
Professors do lean left. The best evidence finds no sign that they convert their students. The skew is mostly self-selection, students have minds of their own, and the indoctrination complaint insults the critical thinking college exists to build. A 1980 Baruch classroom, and the 2026 evidence that backs it.
Empty seats at a student concert and at Belmont basketball sent me back to what I learned watching my wife. People come where someone is expecting them, and anyone can be that someone.
A viral post did the math on MIT’s admissions by sex and got it right. The trouble is what the math assumed. Who applies tells you who was interested, not who was qualified. The fair test is how a class was chosen.
Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham explained how to earn a billion dollars. Here is the opposite recipe, the one a rich country runs on itself by refusing to look at the math.
“Only 5 percent” sounds like a small slice of a paycheck. Proposition 40 would take 5 percent of a fortune. Here is that bill in the units most of us use, what it would be paid with, and what it can and can’t fix.