SB 15 will produce negative unintended consequences: Rather than realizing its stated purpose of preventing a micromanaging crisis, it might instead prevent boards from being able to manage the crisis in higher education.
Higher Education
The Eternal ‘Apple of Gold’: Lincoln’s Defense of Justice Thomas’s Call to Our Founding Principles
Recently at UT-Austin, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas spoke as part of the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence. Thomas understands what too many in our day have forgotten: that the Declaration is, as Abraham Lincoln put it, the “apple of gold,” and the Constitution is the picture of silver framed around it. The...
April 30, 2026