Forty years ago, U.S. colleges employed more faculty than administrators. But today, teachers make up less than half of college employees, and students and taxpayers must bear the cost of administrative bloat.
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