Note: What all too often passes these days for "higher education" is, sadly, neither higher nor education. In the social sciences especially, it's frequently little more than indoctrination. "To send your child to college," writes commentator Dennis Prager, "is to play Russian roulette with their values. There is a good chance your child will return from college alienated from you, from America, and from Western civilization." No one has a moral obligation to subsidize by their taxes, tuition, or contributions the destruction of their free society. So it's exciting when a new university is formed to offer parents and students an alternative to widespread academic rot. When I learned of Ralston College, I eagerly asked my friend and its founding president, Stephen Blackwood, to share the good news here.

– Lawrence W. Reed, president emeritus, Foundation for Economic Education.)

We hear a lot about problems in higher education. From unsustainable cost to the student loan crisis to activist ideology and cancel culture, the problems are serious, widespread, and widely acknowledged.

One can describe and analyze those problems in various ways, but there's no getting around the fact, exceptions here and there, that our institutions of higher education are failing their fundamental purpose—to enable young people to live meaningful and substantial lives.