It is mid-August. Summer camp will soon be ending and college will soon be starting: a good time to examine both fixtures of American culture.

Some of this old guy’s strongest childhood memories are of summer camp for exactly the reasons set forth in this interesting essay.

When this old guy looks back on his life and puts family, college, and opportunity on a spectrum of determinants of how his life unfolded, college clearly ranks as the most important. Thus, small wonder that I found the following set of essays captivating:

as well as this set:

See you Tuesday.