Tag: prestige

How the Prestige and Trust Deficit Impacts the Strategic Equation

Commentary Every major nation-state faces an existential threat in terms of economic viability, partly because the global strategic climate of distrust no longer favors high debt levels. This is not, in hard terms, because economic viability and (therefore) long-term security are no longer achievable, but because the factors of prestige and trust that empower and…


American Universities Have Lost Their Prestige

Commentary Nothing is stranger than the contemporary American university. Not long ago, Americans used to idolize their universities. Indeed, in science, math, engineering, medicine, and business, many of these meritocratic departments and schools remain among the top-ranked in the world. Top-notch higher education explains much of the current scientific, technological, and commercial excellence of the…