I stand firmly in my belief that Fort Wayne is a great town where you can still buy a reasonable house for $250k right next to a beautiful bikeable greenway that will take you to both a Saarinen campus and fabulous Burmese food

Again I chalk the hand-wringing up to the relentless belief that young people aren’t “real people” who don’t already have values, who haven’t been exposed to other ways of thinking. It’s why we will put them in charge of DOGE or tech startups but not take them seriously as students

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