Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.