On Tuesday, Hampshire College became the latest academic institution to announce its closure. There was a time when such failures were rare occurrences. That trickle is turning into a torrent, but the media and academics are missing a critical part of the lesson. There is no greater example of how academics are killing higher education than the death of Hampshire College.
President Jenn Chrisler stated in an announcement that “The College no longer has the resources to sustain full operations and meet our regulatory responsibilities. We want to assure you that Hampshire’s board made its decision only after exploring every possible alternative.”Well, not “every possible alternative.”The college was founded to advance a progressive agenda and pedagogy, including a shift to narrative evaluations rather than grades. It has been one of the most woke colleges in the nation.
In my book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I write about how this generation of faculty and administrators has destroyed higher education by prioritizing political and social agendas, purging the faculty ranks of conservatives and libertarians, and creating a culture of viewpoint intolerance.
Schools like Hampshire College wrote off half of the country and offered indoctrination over education. Students were offered little more than woke credentials with few marketable skills or demonstrated abilities with their degrees. By removing the “anxiety” of grades and rigorous academic standards, the college became a comfort zone rather than a learning zone.
As reported by sites like The College Fix, the faculty heralded its woke agenda on climate change and combating racism.
The New York Times article mentions little of Hampshire’s woke agenda and curriculum, noting that many colleges have been closing. It is the same shrug that one sees in higher education.Surveys show that public confidence in higher education is at a record low.The school slogan, “To Know Is Not Enough,” captured that institutional purpose. Yet, it was also not enough to know that your college was failing to get you to reexamine your culture and curriculum. The problem with the academic echo chamber is that many professors would rather their institutions fail than abandon their agenda and bias.
University professors, if anything, are doubling down with the selection of a far-left activist by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and a continuation of their biased faculty hiring practices.
Many families are unwilling to be the captive audience of an institution that maintains an orthodoxy taught almost exclusively by liberal faculty.
I take no joy in the failure of schools like Hampshire College. It is a tragedy of the academic culture that has taken hold of higher education.
“Knowledge is good”
The closure of a college or university is fully consistent with left wing nihilism, the purpose of which is the destruction of
freedom and individual rights followed by Western culture and civilization. An ignorant uneducated populace is much more easily ruled.
Anonymous, Republicans have a much higher ratio of less-educated voters. That’s how we got stuck with a Putin lapdog.
Yawn
Oh, the ‘yawn’ joke again. Is that from your weekend bootcamp with Turning Point USA? They’ve been advising the ‘yawn’ joke for years. It’s gotten pretty old.
You did not actually say anything meaningful.
More democrats go to college – WOW !
More people on the right who have never taken a course in economics know more about economics that the average democrat.
Often more than the worlds great economists.
80% of the top economists in the world predicted a Disater in Argentina with the election of Milei.
A few still are.
But Argentina has recovered from hyperinflation. It is growing again. Standard of living is rising.
And poverty has been cut nearly in half.
The left ranted about Trump’s 20B in loan guaratees.
Argentina only used $5B of that, and has already paid it back – With interest.
There are still problems – Inflation is still too high – but it is at Biden levels NOT Zimbabwe Levels.
Argentina has gone from completely unmanageable problems to relatively ordinary problems in a very short period.
Once upon a time Argentia was as prosperous as most western nations.
Once upon a time is returning in Argentina.
Most “uneducated” republicans could have predicted Milie’s success.
Are there any “educated” democrats who could ?
More education used to mean something.
Today it means think twice before hiring.
Putin lapdog Biden!!!
Boy he told them didn’t he ‘don’t!!!
The lefgt has a higher percentage of IYI’s
Intellectual Yet Idiots.
We have increased the number of people going to college – so much that we are driving the wages of skilled blue collar workers over 6 figures.
Yes alot of republicans are saying – why blow 80K on college when many major manufacturers will Pay me to get technically trained and then pay me 6 figures.
Less educated is not more stupid.
As to “intelligence” – Libertarians on average have IQ’s 20pts higher than either republicans or democrats.
“The closure of a college or university is fully consistent with left wing nihilism”
Hampshire College, the failure of which is the subject of Turley’s column, was founded as the embodiment of left wing nihilism. That doesn’t do very much to support your contention, does it?
According to “copilot search”, citing several sources:
“Why Hampshire College Failed
Hampshire College’s closure after the fall 2026 semester was the result of years of financial strain, declining enrollment, and an inability to secure a viable path forward despite major fundraising and restructuring efforts baltimorechronicle.com+1.
1. Declining Enrollment and Enrollment Targets Missed
Since 2019, Hampshire’s enrollment fell from about 842 students in fall 2024 to 747 in 2025, missing its target of around 150 new students for 2025 Boston.com. This decline reduced tuition revenue, which is critical for a small liberal arts college.
2. Heavy Debt Burden and Failed Refinancing
The college carried about $21 million in bond debt and had struggled to refinance it. Even a favorable land sale near Atkins Corner did not generate enough cash to alter its long-term financial trajectory Higher Ed Dive+1. The New England Commission of Higher Education cited the debt and inability to maintain its endowment as major stability concerns Boston.com.
3. Endowment and Revenue Shortfalls
Hampshire’s endowment was falling, undermining its ability to cover day-to-day operations. Net revenue in 2025 was $36.4 million, but total expenses were $40.39 million, leaving a deficit Boston.com. Despite raising $55 million in donations, the school could not close the budget gap baltimorechronicle.com.
4. Land Development and Asset Sales
The college had hoped to leverage its land assets for revenue, but these efforts stalled. The timing of debt maturities and the need to buy back bonds created liquidity pressures Higher Ed Dive.
5. Broader Higher Education Trends
Hampshire’s struggles reflect a wider crisis in small, private liberal arts colleges, where demographic decline, lower birth rates, and reduced college participation have made steady enrollment growth harder to achieve Forbes. The sector is facing consolidation, with projections of hundreds of closures or mergers in the next decade Forbes.
6. Accreditation and Regulatory Risks
The New England Commission of Higher Education warned Hampshire could be placed on probation or lose accreditation if it could not demonstrate financial stability Boston.com+1. This risk, combined with the inability to meet regulatory requirements, made closure the only responsible option.
7. Leadership and Strategic Decisions
President Jennifer Chrisler and the board explored every alternative — including extraordinary budget cuts — but concluded that without a sustainable enrollment base and debt resolution, the college could not meet its obligations Hampshire College.
In summary: Hampshire College failed because it could not reverse declining enrollment, resolve its heavy debt, or generate sufficient revenue from assets to cover costs. These challenges were compounded by broader economic and demographic shifts in higher education, leaving the institution with no viable path forward baltimorechronicle.com+3.
baltimorechronicle.com
Why is Hampshire College closing? Trustees announce 2026 termination of …
https://baltimorechronicle.com/health/hampshire-college-closure-2026-why-the-liberal-arts-pioneer-is-permanently-shutting-down/
Boston.com
Hampshire College in Amherst to close, and another Mass. school is put …
https://www.boston.com/news/education/2026/04/14/hampshire-college-in-amherst-to-close-and-another-mass-school-is-put-on-warning-by-the-state/”
I don’t see “wokeness” or “lack of marketable skills” listed among the reasons. More Turley spam for the disciples to divert away from Trump’s failures, his rage tweeting and a plug for his new book.
You.muat be graduate of the now defunct school. Your lack of original insight and complete reliance on the copy/paste of other’s work is frightening. Better you open your mind and try to understand the Prof. He can teach you a lot.
DF ANON strikes again and again and again.
Do you see unconstitutional interference, subsidies, and grants—unconstitutional university affirmative action—skewing the performance metrics?
How much value/worth does a Hampshire College garner in today’s employment landscape?
“I don’t see “wokeness” listed among the reasons. ”
That might be because you are only capable of first order thinking.
What happened when Bud Light went Woke ?
Sales dropped, stock values plunged.
Pretty close to every “reason” you cited is just people making choices regarding how much they value something.
With fewer students headed for college – increasingly colleges are a buyers market.
And buyers make choices – so far the elite left wing nut ivy’s have not been slammed by declining enrollments.
For the moment a Harvard degree still carries far too much prestige – but even that will go away if they keep undermining the value of the degree.
But smaller colleges are not so fortunate. They do not have reputations that still add value to their degree, they do not have massive endowments that allow them to survive their own mistakes for a while.
If Woke education was valued highly by a diminishing number of college students – Hampshire college would not be pinched.
If Woke education was valued by donors – their endownment would be growing.
All of Hampshire colleges problems that you document trace back in some form to fewer people choosing to bet on Hampshire college in one form or another.
People are voting on Woke and woke is losing.
Gigenius gets her education from “copilot”. LMAO
Who is surprised?
The Left ruins everything it touches.
Absolutely fascinating. Do you mean to say that there is not a person in this audience that recognizes that education has been skewed by unconstitutional governmental interference?
Education was not mandated by the American Founders and Framers precisely because they understood that prosperity and success are achieved by private enterprise in the competitive free markets of the private sector in all endeavors and industries.
Dictatorship and redistribution were ever only valid in the twisted mind of a diseased, alcoholic, invalid, and decompensating parasite, Karl Marx.
The American thesis is Freedom and Self-Reliance.
America should have stuck to that.
Kill the subsidies and grants.
Privatize Education!
Professional and competent staff and faculties are engaged by mid- and senior officials of free enterprises.
There is no need or legal basis for consultation with, or input by, communist union political officers and commissars.
OT
“Pelosi’s Monster: The Creation and Destruction of Eric Swalwell”
– Professor Turley, April 12, 2026
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Sacramento County Judge Shellyanne Chang apparently somehow “knew nothing” about “Pelosi’s Monster,” the real Eric Swalwell, and supported his fraudulent candidacy for CA Gov. in late March, 2025.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court, including state judicial branches.
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“Eric Swalwell stays in California governor race after judge rejects claims he doesn’t live in state”
“Eric Swalwell will remain in the race for California governor after a judge dismissed efforts to boot him from the ballot over claims he doesn’t live in the Golden State. Swalwell’s bid to succeed Gavin Newsom was thrown into doubt when MAGA activist Joel Gilbert filed a lawsuit claiming the congressman doesn’t officially live in California. His petition called upon Secretary of State Shirley Weber to disqualify the Bay Area lawmaker under a clause in the California Constitution requiring candidates to have resided in the Golden State for the previous five years. Gilbert’s ‘smoking gun’ was a 2022 mortgage document in which Swalwell and his wife listed a $1.2 million, six-bed Washington, DC mansion as their ‘principal residence.’ The California address listed in the Democrat’s December 4 candidate filing was his lawyer’s office and not a residence, the suit added. ‘Public record searches reveal no current ownership or leasehold interest held by Eric Swalwell in California, nor any history of any ownership or leasehold interest based on available public records,’ Gilbert wrote.
“Swalwell laughed off the January 16 suit and filed a sworn declaration insisting he had lived in California since 2006, had a California driver’s license and was registered to vote there. His attorney filed an accompanying declaration from Kristina Mrzywka – the sister-in-law of Swalwell’s former deputy chief of staff Tim Sbranti – saying she has rented a house in Livermore to the US Rep. and his wife since 2017. That was enough evidence for Sacramento County Judge Shellyanne Chang to issue a tentative ruling today in the politician’s favor.
“‘Eric Swalwell is not a California resident. He has no valid address in California as required to run for governor. I will argue this in court on Monday, and even if not successful, I will appeal immediately to the Third District Court,’ [said Joel Gilbert].”
– Daily Mail https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/eric-swalwell-stays-in-california-governor-race-after-judge-rejects-claims-he-doesn-t-live-in-state/ar-AA1Z57HC
Mr. Gilbert did appeal, all the way to the California Supreme Court. Denied. Denied.
Is it possible that a higher court declined to hear an emergency petition shortly before Swalwell dropped out, which is often reported as a “denial,” and no formal opinion or published rejection of a residency appeal exists from the state’s highest court in this case?
Fighting climate change is not “woke”. it is basic humanity.
Climate Change has existed for 4.5 billion years.
One might safely conclude that even your communist party should have adapted to that axiomatic cosmic dynamic by now.
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AI Overview
Earth’s climate has existed for approximately 4.5 billion years, essentially as long as the planet itself. It is not a static feature but a continuously evolving system, cycling between
cold “icehouse” periods and warm “greenhouse” periods caused by volcanic activity, atmospheric changes, and orbital shifts.
The human race cannot pour trillions and trillions times trillions and trillions of tons of pollutants into earth’s atmosphere without altering it. We cannot subtract/avoid/change a law of physics: “For every action…” It can’t be done.
CO2 is not a pollutant – it is plant food.
When humans were first able to measure atmostpheric CO2 about 70 years ago it was in the upper 300ppms.
It has gone up less than 1ppm per year since.
In Geological Terms, Today’s Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations Are Still among the lowest they have ever been. The cambrian period had CO2 levels 20 times what they are today.
For 98% of the 3.5Billion year history of the earth – CO2 levels have been higher.
Concern for humantiy means worrying that the planet will get colder – not warmer.
The key word being, “altering”. Missed it. Try again, please!
2015-2024: Accelerated further to an average of 2.6 ppm per year.
2023-2024: Saw a surge of 3.5 ppm, one of the largest annual increases since records began.
People in grinding poverty in third-world countries who cannot afford energy due to climate cultism would tend to disagree.
Excuses are like —holes; everybody’s got one!
You’re a blathering parasite!
Tell ’em to get an education, get a job, get to work, and create their own prosperity and success.
Current case in point: Where the —- are the Great Persian People of the Great Persian Empire?
Better advice: Stop having sex in your parasitic third-world —-hole countries.
It is called the WEATHER. Trillions wasted on phony climate change scams.
ROFL
Spending Trillions to avert a non-crisis that if actually true – and so far every single warmist prediction and every single Warmist climate model has FAILED,
a non-crisis that likely will make us BETTER of if true.
A warmer planet is a safer more productive more humane planet.
We should be nearing the end of an interglacial. We should pray to god that is not true or that if warmists are actually right we have pumped enough CO2 into the atmospher to avoid it.
For every degree C the planets temperature rises – conditions for Humans on NET improve.
Professor Turley, I understand what you mean about ‘no joy’ on one hand, but on the other hand, to see an ‘institution of higher learning’ like Hampshire College fold may be a good signal that even the woke Left moneybags no longer wish to subsidize their own woke factories and that the DEI Period of Destruction in American History, which I saw Flourishing like gangbusters in the Big Corporate workplace after NAFTA was signed by Bill Clinton, has at least been neutralized… (although not entirely abandoned as we know…)
Born and raised in Northampton MA, next door to Hadley. When HC opened for business in 1970 everyone with half a brain knew it would fail based on the advertised curriculum. Surprised it lasted as long as it did!
HALF A BRAIN ANON! ha ha ha ha ha
“Surveys show that public confidence in higher education is at a record low.”
Turley went to law school to learn to write this?
It’s at a low because corporations told people they need a college degree, screen people out who don’t have a college degree, and then ship the jobs overseas or bring in H1-B workers so that American students with the college degree they were told they needed are then told they won’t get hired, often leaving them in debt.
One fast way to fix this is to make college loans dischargeable in bankruptcy. Just wipe out all the student debt that was made by loaning young adults amounts of money for school that would not be loaned to them to buy a house or a business. The US set up this system when it was feared the Russians would have the technological upper hand in order to get the maximum number of students into the workforce with a college degree.
It also doesn’t help that the conservative outlets, mainly funded by billionaires, have been pushing the message that education is a liberal plot to brainwash the students into liberal lines of thought – which doesn’t seem to work so much with conservatives. One would think that if such brainwashing could occur, it could also be used to brainwash students into being excellent organic chemistry and differential equations gurus just as easily.
The billionaires are paying millionaires to convince the lower and middle class to become minions and getting them to skip college and go uneducated is a key part of that shifting of America to become a totalitarian oligarchy.
Surveys show that the propaganda the billionaires are paying for is working.
“One would think that if such brainwashing could occur, it could also be used to brainwash students into being excellent organic chemistry and differential equations gurus just as easily.” I’m not sure that would be possible since brainwashing relies on internal psychological changes. I’ve never thought of organic chemistry or differential equations as psychological learning.
“It’s the [EPS], stupid!”
– James Carville
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“Public confidence” is irrelevant; what matters is tuition and profits regarding constitutional private education free enterprises—the top and bottom lines.
Student loans should be dischargeable in bankruptcy. But as a rule debts to government or debts guaranteed by government are not.
Try getting tax debt discharged in bankruptcy.
While not being able to discharge student loans in bankruptcy is error.
It is small potatos.
Very very few people need student loans discharged in bankruptcy.
And the last thing we should want is hordes of college graduates or drop outs running a decade of their lives by going bankrupt.
Making wise choices about money is really important – if you are educated and you can not do that – your educational institutions have failed you.
My son has a near six figure job working remotely that he got within 4 months of graduating from college. He had less than 20K in total debt,
and he will have that paid off – including interest free loans from his parents.
He managed that “on his own” – mom and dad adopted children in their 40’s and paying for their kids college while trying to save for retirement is one of the few problems with having kids later.
Going to college can be wise. It can also be foolish.
Those who make good choices should and are rewarded for that.
Those who make poor choices should experience the consequences of those choices.
The alternative creates moral hazard and makes all of us worse off.
“Those who make good choices should and are rewarded for that.
Those who make poor choices should experience the consequences of those choices.”
This only applies to the poor and middle class. Amazon blew 87 Billion dollars on failed virtual reality, but that didn’t damage them in any meaningful way – the CEO still owns a boat that was more costly to build than entire towns were.
What ruins lives is having their entire lives spent getting a big chunk of whatever income they can manage be siphoned off for an economic decision they made when they were 18.
The moral hazard is that the US bails out the banks and financial institutions time and time again. John Say, that’s your personal contribution to being a minion.
College is a business decision. It is to provide you with marketable skills – not coddle you, not indoctrinate you, not allow you to ‘find yourself’ though that may be a welcome side effect. Schools that don’t provide actual benefits to the students should fail. It’s like going to a restaurant that doesn’t actually serve food.
“It’s like going to a restaurant that doesn’t actually serve food.”
More like going to a steakhouse that serves imitation, soy-based “beef” imo.
You confuse college with a trade school.
“You confuse college with a trade school”
True enough. Considering the clear and voluminous evidence,on hand, there is no excuse for confusing a college or university with an institution that can adequately prepare anyone for real life, or to earn a living.
Quick OT: (apology to Professor Turley)
Anti-Trump administration federal district Judge Boasberg shot down yet again by DC Court of Appeals.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.42696/gov.uscourts.cadc.42696.01208840434.0.pdf
“To Know Is Not Enough”
I wonder if they know that now?
Or is it that they still don’t know enough?
Young,
Thank you for the laugh, despite it being true.
Got to wonder if they had the knowledge enough to consult their own economics department.
Wait, it appears they did not.
What a great opportunity for all those conservatives and libertarians who have been forced out of academia to pitch in and buy this property and show the liberals just how it’s done. Make it a whirlwind turnaround success story.
My nephew graduated from little ole private liberal arts Hillsdale College. He was a millionaire by his upper 20s. Christian college –also in a very competitive state (several top-notch schools) like Massachusetts.
“Hillsdale College, a private liberal arts institution in Michigan, distinguishes itself through its rigorous academic standards, limited class sizes, and commitment to principles of classical education and American exceptionalism. For prospective students, particularly those with a background or interest in technology, understanding the demands and unique aspects of Hillsdale’s educational environment is crucial.” https://www.clrn.org/how-hard-is-hillsdale-college/
I’m sure there are several of us here who can share similar stories. Wonder why Hampshire is having trouble…..
(see, below, some other facts about Hampshire that I merely mentioned in my comment to “X,” e.g., its removal of the American Flag to placate some objecting students.)
Lin, did everyone who graduated with your nephew become a millionaire by their upper 20s or is this an exception and the rest are grinding a day job, maybe working in a warehouse?
Often such exclusive schools are where children of wealthy parents make connections to get cushy jobs that don’t really require hard work.
On the other hand, many very wealthy people never went to college at all – Sam Walton, founder of Walmart, for example. Others dropped out – Michael Dell is an example of that.
So your nephew went to a school that most people cannot attend because they don’t have a large enough school to do so and happened to become wealthy with no information about the connection between the two?
Great story, maybe true, totally meaningless.
Hillsdale College is not an exclusive school.
My nephew started his own company–not “connections” to a “cushy job.”
My point was that the majority of us (I hope) still believe in competitive, accredited, traditional college curricula, with fundamental, core course requirements, NOT forsaking those courses for a program in political and social justice. Sorry you missed that.
Great response, unfortunately untrue and unfounded, totally inapropos.
Thanks anyway.
Lin,
I would add to that list, a good work ethic, striving for the best and a degree of humility.
Lin – another academically rigorous conservative Christian college that takes no federal money is Grove City College in western PA. I’ve known a few people who went there and ended up doing well in life. Definitely not from wealthy families.
“limited class sizes” is exclusive. That’s how the classes are small.
I doubt the nephew didn’t make helpful connections.
But you skipped out – did all the remainder do as well or better than your nephew or did the fact your nephew did worse than drop-out Michael Dell not indicate a problem with the school?
Is it ironic that the college’s closing announcement cites “inability to meet regulatory responsibilities”?
garyesq2k2: Yes, and clearly failures in fund-raising was up there. This is despite the successes of other small, private, somewhat “woke” colleges in Massachusetts that have done well.
Earlier (@ 10:00), I replied to “X/George” and mentioned a few omitted facts about Hampshire’s structure and curriculum, i.e., catering to a very esoteric student population, affecting its marketability and enrollments in an economically-competitive world. Whole lotta people just not buyin’ what it was sellin’ as marketable, particularly a failure to require traditional/core subjects-even in a liberal arts curriculum.
Are we really surprised? For at least a decade colleges have been pushing various woke indoctrination, even to go so far to mandate DEI classes as a graduation requirement from their “captured audience.” The fad might of appealed to some, clearly it did not for others. So much so enrollment declined. The closure of the school did not happen over night. It must of been a on going trend as the overall public trust in higher education declined. Rather then look at the data, the enrollment numbers, basic economics and do something to correct the issue, seems the administrators doubled down on their woke indoctrination, a kind of, “If you build it, they will come!” mentality. Well, that did not happen. Students and parents look and saw what kind of value did this college offer for their money and decided it was not worth it. This kind of woke indoctrination does not appeal to students and they chose to take their money elsewhere.
As to all those who did go to colleges like this one, who got degrees in various DEI programs, we are seeing companies who got on board with the DEI train have found DEI adds nothing to their bottom line and is actually a liability. Many of these companies have ended their DEI divisions and fired the DEI staff. Those with DEI degrees now find themselves resuming their careers as baristas, living at home with their parents and saddled with student debt that they may be paying for, for most of their adult lives.
A lot of farmers are going to be wiped out by higher fuel and fertilizer costs. Trump did that. Conservatives did that.
Rand Paul is the only Republican against the war. Unfortunately there’s only about six Democrats that have come out against the war. The American people as a group and even more so the Congress are the biggest group of warmongering scumbags walking this planet. To blame conservatives more than the Dems is just plain stupid or naive. I will surely agree though but this Iranian War of Trumps is the worst and highest risk of starting World War III of any president in my lifetime. By worst I mean it’s potential to destroy the economy of the entire planet.
Hysteric! take some Valium.
“the worst and highest risk of starting World War III of any president in my lifetime.”
Meh, you must be very young. While I did not agree with starting this war, your assessment is extreme hyperbole. There have been, and very likely will not be, any real U. S. troop presence on the ground in Iran. There appears to be progress toward a negotiated settlement that will strip Iran of enriched uranium for quite some time. The length of that seems to be the current sticking point in those negotiations. Trump has been a proponent for ridding Iran of weapons-grade uranium since long before he ever ran for President, so that is quite consistent on his part. If the end result is that Iran agrees to forgo enriched uranium for 10 years, that would be a positive outcome. Frankly, if there is a regime change there, the new leaders would not necessarily see themselves as bound by such an agreement, so 20 years as initially demanded by Trump is probably not that crucial. If things move along as anticipated, this will turn out to be far less destructive to true US interests than were the two adventures in Iraq, or the one in Afghanistan.
Most farmers buy their fuel in bulk in the winter when prices are lower. The current situation will have no impact on most farmers. However, I will not be surprised MSM will highlight those who did not buy their fuel during the off season.
Some of us never got on the fertilizer train in the first place. We use our livestock out put to make compost in place of fertilizer.
The anon troll you responded to is just a bot with Dem talking points. Not a human. Not to be taken seriously.
OldManFromKS,
Likely. But the information was to educate everyone else as to what farm economics really looks like. Not just some mindless bot spouting Dem talking points.
Upstate, true and it was useful for that purpose. Goes to show how idiotic the Dem talking points are.
Can’t refute the message so attack the messenger, eh?
For all I can tell you are working from a Moscow suburb.
You have enough cattle and pigs to fertilize 5000 acres of corn?
Did Trump create “Locusts” and the “Boll Weevil” in his laboratory of malice?
If you want to be a farmer, you might consider the extant perils of nature before you purchase your first acre, Einstein.
Oh, and then develop a plan of adaptation.
UpstateFarmer
“might -HAVE-” not “might of”
“must -HAVE- ” not “must of”
If you want to complain about education, get one first.
Those who made the poor choice to make loans to 18 year olds need to see the consequence of the loans being defaulted and discharged in bankruptcy.
I want to talk more about Swallowell, a subject that i am sure is galling Gigi and George.
His wife made $247,000 in “consulting” last year. Naw, he wasnt a known slime ball.
Gigi claims he “stepped up” lmao. What a delusional hack that person is. He was mown down, by his own no less. He DENIED all the allegations. Thats “stepping up” in Gigenius’ book.
Who is “Gigi”? Tell me, WHAT investigation was made into the allegations regarding Swalwell? None. But, he left anyway at the call of Democratic members of Congress. What Republican has ever done just voluntarily left or what Republican leader has ever called for the resignation of a Republican accused of sexual assault or sexual misconduct? None.
OTOH, your President was adjudicated guilty of sexual assault by a jury of his peers, after a full jury trial that he LOST–but Republicans support him anyway. Your President bragged about grabbing women by their genitals, but Republicans support him anyway. Your President was convicted of 34 felonies, but Republicans support him anyway. Your President lied to get into office, promising no new wars, and Republicans support him anyway. Your President lied about knowing that Project 2025 would be his agenda, after polls showed Americans strongly disapproved of this agenda—then immediately hired one of the architects–Russell Vought–who had 180 Executive Orders ready for his signature on day one.
Nutchachacha!
Poor Gigenius…in denial about her own identity tells you all you need to know about her mental state.
Sad that her President bragged about grabbing some puss, but not at all about the violent date rape druggist Eric Swallowell. He “stepped up”.
Not at all sad that most Democrats voted down a measure to disclose the TAXPAYER FUNDED Congressional assault payoff fund.
Was apoplectic that Kavanaugh’s accuser was found not credible.
Not bothered that the woman claimed Trump RAPED her (standing face to face in a closet), yet the jury “adjudicated” that he DID NOT.
What a pathetic excuse for a female, let alone a human.
I know, right? Smalwick should be good for a coupla more posts this week. Like how many days does it take to extradite a Maryland man to L.A.? And what are the odds of conviction on a 7-year-old allegation with no physical evidence (unless there’s hotel video as with Puff Daddy)? Federal charges on harboring and using campaign funds to pay an illegal might be easier to prove.
I can hardly wait to see swallow in his prison uniform.
The idea of tenure was to insulate unconventional ideas and their proponents from academic censure. It was, and is still, a great concept except that when you have 99% conformity in an institution and tenure is used only to secure the safety of that 99% at the cost of the other 1% it becomes the very vehicle for the creation of a bubble of consensual thought with no buffeting from different opinions. I would imagine that in today’s DEI prog culture there is a very low bar for acquiring said safety net.
Tenure should be earned because of the validity of a concept and the researched and proven concepts that it would protect. Because an agenda has trumped the concept of tenure we find most of our institutions overflowing with radical, untested and controversial concept. While that does not mean that I would banish every far left concept en masse, but I would like to see genuine peer review from a broad swath of academic concepts to insure that tenure is given only to those who can display the validity of their ideas.
This is not happening today, and if you follow the trend in academia from the turning of the 20th century you can trace the increasing liberal bend to the academic community by both those Americans sympathetic to the transcendental ideologies and also from the mass immigration of intellectuals of the more liberal bend as they fled Europe around the time of both the Russian revolution and WWI.
We could propose a slow turning of this ship via new leadership and the aging out of the current mass of progressive/left ideologue but I do not think we have the luxury of such a stretch of time as the world moves at lightening speed today and we are already witnessing the damage of several generations of indoctrinated – but not educated – young people who have been taught to just swallow whatever spew is being fed to them in these isolated castles of mind-shaping. Try talking to one of them, or far worse, try employing one of them and you will see that this journey into unrealistic idealism has created so many that are truly dysfunctional at almost all levels other than texting and protesting.
Heck, I take some joy in it.
Flowers for Algernon (of the Academic Universe)
Unfortunately, when the nomenklatura passing themselves as intelligensia reap the seeds they have sown, those who plowed the fields and tended the growing producers are also guillotined (see the “Rage and Republic” for Paine’s escaping execution in Paris due to a bureaucratic mishap which accidentally bypassed his cell).
Bottom line, the net produce of this institution was probably indoctrination – not education, and certainly not the ability to assimilate both knowledge and logic to create and produce value.
It is still sad, because (as Prof. Turley has previously pointed out), those with values capable of mentoring the growing minds have been removed from those institutions prior to the demise of these indoctrination institutions – despite their value and valor.
Those of us who’ve served in Government falling for the “it’s your turn to serve” understand reality.
10% (probably a very overly optimistic statistic, in my experience, 5% probably more realistic) of those in government service labor far more than the 7 hours they are paid for. These wonderful individuals are the assets that go unnoticed and rarely praised. They are the ones who move forward <5% of the net funding to intended value and services (at least in the language of the act and/or policy). They are the “secret service” engine that keeps the absurdly over manufactured nomenklatura (party and shadow elite leaders) train moving – to at least provide some minimal benefits to the people.
Part of the problems that impacts smaller liberal arts colleges is also the declining birth rate and the fact that technology is now “hot”. one has the option at these schools of majoring in computer science, math or physics. This can be a platform to get into technology but its not an easy road. I agree with most of your assessment Paul, just noting this addition. Note that this college is in the northeast which is an area that is now an economic laggard with net population outflow.