These days the only jobs he would get there (or in the rest of the Ivy League) would be either cleaner or security.

For years (indeed decades) “practical” people ignored warnings of what was happening to education (and not just to the Ivy League).

“Theory” did not matter – “once the students come out into the real world….”.

In the “Age of Obama” the “practical” people stand exposed as fools.

Ideas do matter – and the young are deeply influenced by the control of formal education by the left.

I am a very ordinary, middle class person who has not earned any extravagant amount of money in my life. My wife is about the same. We have both worked since our teenage years, and she is still pursuing her career, while I work only occasionally any longer.

And yet, we have owned very nice houses, cars, taken vacations, and raised 4 children with private schooling, had good medical care, and, as my waistline will attest, enjoyed an entire lifetime of good, nutritious food.

Our people described as “poor” live at a level comparable to any other country’s middle class, and, historically, better even than past royalty or aristocracy.

This has occurred for one reason and one reason only—the acknowledgement of individual rights, and the resulting freedom for creative, productive people to prosper and retain the fruits of their labor.

That latter phrase, in and of itself, is a revolutionary step in human social development.

It is also the area most continuously under attack for the last century by the advocates of collective ideology and statist society.

I do not care about Warren Buffett or Bill Gates. I care about the people who work every day, day in and day out, hoping to take care of their families, and enjoy a few of life’s amenities along the way.

The genius of liberty is that they can achieve that hope.

The shame of collectivist society is that that dream is denied, indeed, stolen, in order to feed the power hunger of its cadres, and pour the wealth of the productive into the black hole of the needs of the incapable.

This is the 50th Anniversary Ed (2010) of the PLL.

Still, I like to buy books and collections from them, because the last time i tried they would not accept contributions (they were endowed by a bequest).

at Libertyfund.org.

Simply go to their online library of liberty (OLL)
click on the “s” in the top line on the first list of authors, when the list appears scroll to the bottom and thar he be.

Liberty Fund is a tremendous resource of printed books and collected works – take a look at the catalogue, just to get an idea of all that has been thought out over millenia on the topics that so concern us now.

Warning: it may appear to be a bit “libertarian.”