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Three things I need to achieve in 2025
I am, by nature, a goal-driven person. Perhaps it was the topic of my dissertation and the extensive literature search and subsequent...

Peter Lorenzi
Jan 32 min read
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You could not pay me enough....
... to be a college president. You Could Not Pay Me Enough to Be a College President Soon enough, the capable few won’t want the job...

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 15, 20239 min read
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Losing the language wars: Woke malapropisms
The can of worms around free speech and bullying or threatening speech was created when the powers that be created an awkward,...

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 13, 20232 min read
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Harvard goes shambolic
In the recent example (December 7,2023) of shameless and shameful arrogance from the DEI-driven, "elite" universities, the Harvard Board...

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 13, 20231 min read
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Sustainable management: Poverty, opportunity, justice
There is a tendency when studying the concept of sustainability for one to think in terms of threats, meaning threats to the condition of...

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 13, 202330 min read
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Chapter Two: Sustainability
This chapter explores the definition, history and nature of sustainability. With human progress over the last two hundred years came...

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 12, 202321 min read
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Chapter One: Innovation, technology, education, globalization
During my sabbatical in 2015-16, I completed a manuscript supporting my work, with the eponomyous title, "Managing sustainable...

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 12, 202321 min read
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Fauci lied, people died, and AG Garland could care less
Ooctober 21, 2021. Rand Paul was correct when he questioned Fauci in May. Fauci then lied to his face and now the truth has come out. And...

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 11, 20231 min read
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Mask theatrics
September 8, 2022. New York City v Vermont. I have no handy explanation for that. As for politics, NYC and Vermont are very similar. The...

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 11, 20232 min read
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Amala Ekpunobi: Unapologetic
October 29, 2022. Are there alternatives to using racism to explain most of the differences across races? Very clearly, yes. Watch a very...

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 6, 20232 min read
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The rise and -- hopefully -- fall of wokeism
October 5, 2022. Micahel Lind describes the problem in complete detail. The opening paragraphs: “On or around December 1910, human...

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 6, 20238 min read
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Peter Boghossian: Beyond woke
The First Step to Winning the Culture War October 11, 2021 The Problem Woke ideology has made deep inroads into our culture and permeated...

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 6, 20233 min read
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Making grades and degrees irrelevant
Yale Report Shows Grade Inflation Is Real Roughly 79 percent of the grades awarded at Yale University in the 2022–23 academic year were...

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 6, 20232 min read
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Higher ed as a threat rather than an opportunity
Higher Ed Has Become a Threat to America Our corrupt, radical universities feed every scourge from censorship and crime to antisemitism....

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 6, 20232 min read
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Too much equity is a bad thing
August 29, 2022. Income equality, not inequality, is the problem. Download file (below); read first four paragraphs (further below,...

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 5, 20233 min read
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Georgetown, slavery and reparations
March 26, 2022. Georgetown, slavery and reparations. The rhetoric around reparations touches on high questions of morality and ethics,...

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 5, 20232 min read
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The DEI industrial complex
Reflecting on my Loyola days recently, I recalled a faculty meeting where I questioned the ineffectiveness of a new program at reversing...

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 4, 20232 min read
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'Inclusion' means restricting speech
Peter Boghossian explains "inclusion." Inclusion. What the woke mean by inclusion is “restricting speech.” Here’s how it works. An...

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 4, 20231 min read
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Woke doesn't work globally -- or domestically
American institutions of higher education have long operated in a bubble, greatly disconnected to practical, daily reality, while...

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 4, 20233 min read
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Gotta love Substack
April 8, 2022. Nellie Bowles via Bari Weiss's Substack: TGIF. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? Biden is doing so...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 22, 20232 min read
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