I retired as Associate Professor Emeritus from Indiana University, the second school where I was tenured. The first was the University of Texas at San Antonio, and I turned down the tenure offer to accept an untenured position at Indiana. Teaching was my second career, and I took it seriously enough that I offer it to explain why I was appalled to watch an anti-intellectual bonehead embarrass himself and the country for four years.
The president we just survived came with zero experience of public service and an undergraduate degree in business. (No, government does not run and cannot be run like a business.) Donald John Trump, who coined the term “The Donald” as a self-description, said that he was a graduate of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, a graduate school of excellent reputation. I confess I was taken in by how he described his undergraduate degree.