Stopping the campus-fication of American life

Many people, years after they have graduated from high school and college, have nightmares about taking exams in a course in which they have done none of the reading and are totally unprepared. You wake up full of anxiety and relax only when you realize you left school years ago.

But increasingly it seems like none of us ever gets out of school, as the rules and restrictions that have proliferated on college and university campuses over the last two or three decades ooze out and spread to the wider society. We find ourselves dealing, exams aside, with the campus-fication of American life.