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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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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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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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Poverty, education and teenage girl births
A former Jesuit started this conversation and analysis by sending me a link to a December 31, 2022 New York Times article, noting the...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 12, 20233 min read
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Men without work: The death of a cherished institution
September 17, 2022 Freddy Gray speaks to Nicholas Eberstadt, author of Men Without Work, about why, despite good employment figures,...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 6, 20232 min read
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What is the American Dream?
April 28, 2022 Here is one take on the American Dream, from Maggie's Farm. The opening paragraphs: I recently took a poll about whether...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 6, 20233 min read
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A litany against the madness from Common Sense
July 7, 2022 From Common Sense. Here is just some of the nonsense the world tolerates -- if not promotes -- today, as promulgated by the...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 6, 20233 min read
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The revolt of the French working class
April 18, 2022 Liberté, égalité, fraternité! The working people of France appear to be rejecting Macron and progressive topics, e.g.,...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 6, 20233 min read
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Insufferable arrogance of the elite media's 'experts'
July 2, 2022 Why do we even listen to these 'experts'? the elite media? the progressive politicians? the well-confirmed liars? Here are...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 6, 20232 min read
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Personal and social responsibility
February 22, 2023 One concept -- among many -- that eluded me during my academic career was the term 'social responsibility' and, even...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 6, 20232 min read
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A bunch of baloney about the problems of higher education
Usually the Spectator applies critical thinking -- with conclusions that I don't always accept as correct -- but in this case,...

Peter Lorenzi
Aug 22, 20233 min read
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Holy Week musings
April 6, 2023 After a long silence, feeling moved to add some musings to this blog/journal/diary. College craziness persists. Stanford,...

Peter Lorenzi
Apr 6, 20232 min read
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Excess death data deception
March 1, 2023. How many Covid caused "excess deaths" have there been in these past three years? Not as many as you have been led to...

Peter Lorenzi
Mar 1, 20232 min read
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It's about time: Intellectual diversity in a university
An interesting, seemingly well-intentioned idea -- a college dedicated to intellectual/political diversity at the University of North...

Peter Lorenzi
Mar 1, 20231 min read
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Does funding school choice cause inflation?
This guy thinks so, when he claims, "The Cost of School Vouchers? Sky-High Inflation; It’s Economics 101: costs increase when the...

Peter Lorenzi
Mar 1, 20232 min read
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Sponge U
Latest news from 'the sky is falling' front, i.e., The Chronicle of (Woke) Education. Amid Budget Shortfall, New Jersey City U. Will...

Peter Lorenzi
Mar 1, 20232 min read
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A country divided, red and blue
November 16, 2020 The red-blue divide today in America has less to do with race, poverty, education or intelligence and can be better...

Peter Lorenzi
Mar 1, 20232 min read
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My love-hate relationship with CPAP
After eight days and one significant external event, I am close to establishing a stable relationship with my CPAP. That one external...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 28, 20232 min read
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Finding (a place to stay in) Florence
First trip was in 1964; last trip to Florence was about 1990. Time to consider going back, with perhaps a day trip to Rome -- 1.5 hours...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 28, 20232 min read
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Memorable people and events of my life
The stories of my life. No, not One Direction -- although I do like the song -- but rather the start of my attempt to compile the people...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 28, 20232 min read
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