The Last President

Meet Leon Botstein, the last real college president in the US (for now), and learn why he matters

Dear Nonnie Friend,

Too often we defend our unexamined judgments by assuming the rhetoric and stance of moral superiority thereby dividing every question into a simple opposition between right and wrong and turning dissent into offense and evil.

—Leon Botstein, PhD, President, Bard College

I'm reading and writing a lot about schooling, including my own, a…