Adrian Wooldridge

3 days ago | post-gazette.com | Adrian Wooldridge

Ronald Reagan was wrong. The nine most terrifying words in the English language are not “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” They are: “The arc of the moral universe bends towards justice.”This is a pretty phrase that was invented by a good person, Theodore Parker, and revived by another good one, Martin Luther King Jr. But it’s terrifying because it produces unjustified confidence that history is on your side, and this has consequences.

5 days ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Adrian Wooldridge

Business corporations are, simultaneously, the world’s most wonderful organizations and the most terrifying. Wonderful because they produce an unprecedented profusion of life’s necessities and luxuries. Terrifying because they are so powerful and relentless. “Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned,” the 18th century British Lord Chancellor Edward Thurlow once remarked, “they therefore do as they like.” How can we bring out the best in these Janus-faced creatures?

5 days ago | bloomberg.com | Adrian Wooldridge

Robert A. G. Monks: The blue-blooded, rabble-rousing godfather of shareholder activism. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- This column reflects the personal views of the author and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners. Adrian Wooldridge is the global business columnist for Bloomberg Opinion.

1 week ago | union-bulletin.com | Adrian Wooldridge

Ronald Reagan was wrong. The nine most terrifying words in the English language are not “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” They are: “The arc of the moral universe bends towards justice.”This is a pretty phrase that was invented by a good person, Theodore Parker, and revived by another good one, Martin Luther King Jr. But it’s terrifying because it produces unjustified confidence that history is on your side, and this has consequences.

1 week ago | twincities.com | Adrian Wooldridge

It is hard not to sympathize with the Trump administration’s criticisms of U.S. universities. The Ivory Tower has been badly corroded in recent years by the twin evils of the “woke mind virus” and administrative bloat. Some academic disciplines — all those “studies” — are fixated on the evils of the West. The administrative class has multiplied so fast that some universities have more administrators than professors.