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The joy in what I believe
A short review of my core beliefs: I believe in Jesus Christ, in my need to make a positive, prosocial impact, and life after death in...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 2, 20212 min read
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The self-destructive conceit of American universities
October 26, 2021. American universities once pursued knowledge through research and a better society through education as the...

Peter Lorenzi
Oct 26, 20212 min read
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Joy of fall in Harrison
Fall flew in last week. After a gorgeous interlude of late summer-like weather, Wisconsin October crept in more like a crouching tiger...

Peter Lorenzi
Oct 25, 20212 min read
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Not news: Record droughts followed by record rain
Progressives have the shortest memories and the least understanding of science. Tony Heller does another takedown of delirium in...

Peter Lorenzi
Oct 25, 20211 min read
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Wealth is not income; there is no such thing as "fair share"
From the October 11, 2021 Wall Street Journal column, Is the Income-Tax Rate on the Rich 8%, or 23%? Depends on Whose Math You Use, "The...

Peter Lorenzi
Oct 11, 20212 min read
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Ed Lorenzi on personal responsibility
Picture from Ed's Army Air Force flying days, 1944-45. The speech that follows is from his commencement address to his East Deer...

Peter Lorenzi
Oct 10, 20217 min read
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My history with England
My personal history with England goes back more than fifty years, and it started with Ed, a navigator in a B-29 in the Eighth Air Force,...

Peter Lorenzi
Oct 10, 20214 min read
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The clear case against "consensus science"
Why scientific consensus is an oxymoron. If it's science, it's not consensus. If it's consensus it's not science. Critical thinking...

Peter Lorenzi
Oct 8, 20211 min read
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Three facts about poverty and prosperity
These are three tough-to-refute findings from my fifty years in higher education. 1. The family unit is the foundation of the economy and...

Peter Lorenzi
Oct 8, 20212 min read
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The rich pay more than their fair share
Let me start by citing a paragraph from my post from a week ago, 28 September 2021. Were professor Blinder to tax Bezos' stock, Bezos...

Peter Lorenzi
Oct 5, 20215 min read
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My public television: How companies solve social problems
About five years ago, Loyola's Selling School of Business participated in a weekly business program on a local Baltimore public...

Peter Lorenzi
Oct 4, 20212 min read
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Fauci failures: Lessons not learned from AIDS
October 4, 2021. This article confirms what I have been asking for the past year: If Fauci could be so wrong on AIDS, why should we...

Peter Lorenzi
Oct 4, 20212 min read
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Tony Heller and science versus the billionaires and HHS
Sunday night collection of Tony Heller videos on record fires (from 1995, 1896 and 1898) and scams of the richest people in the world...

Peter Lorenzi
Oct 3, 20212 min read
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Covid contradictions and the welfare state
Leave it to the Wall Street Journal to stir up ruminations on Covid contradictions and the "welfare state," from the September 30, 2021...

Peter Lorenzi
Sep 30, 20214 min read
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Family fun atop the Hyatt House Chelsea
Five days of finding New York to still be the crazy, expensive, diverse economy and life, sometimes feeling exactly like fifty years ago...

Peter Lorenzi
Sep 29, 20211 min read
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Ed Lorenzi, Eden life and personal opinions
What I remember, love, appreciate about my dad and the family homestead at 3158 east Church Street in Eden. Ed Lorenzi did not have an...

Peter Lorenzi
Sep 29, 20214 min read
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Blind, Blinder, blindest and Biden
The Wall Street Journal September 26, 2021 headline from Princeton's Alan Blinder is idiotic clickbait: House Democrats Miss Some...

Peter Lorenzi
Sep 28, 20213 min read
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LCD op-ed: Minimum wage, maximum tax (03.07.1995)
Peter Lorenzi, Dean, University of Central Arkansas It’s that time of year again. Tax time. W-2 forms. Time to load up the income tax...

Peter Lorenzi
Sep 19, 20213 min read
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Going global (2.15.1994)
Peter Lorenzi, Dean, University of Central Arkansas According to the World Bank, the United States still dominates the world’s economies,...

Peter Lorenzi
Sep 19, 20213 min read
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My cost of college, 1969 and 2019
Gaby graduates from UCLA, June 2021. "My" cost of college refers to the fact that I was able to pay for my own college -- nine years in...

Peter Lorenzi
Sep 19, 20214 min read
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