The online magazine Inside Higher Ed posed some thoughtful questions about Light without Fire and those questions got answered.

In order to succeed, American institutions must mean more to the country than what might be represented by a charismatic founder or the earliest thinking about what the institution can do. The success of institutions must be measured not by the mere fact of their creation (or the reputation of the creators), but by the people and the breadth of new ideas that the institutions create.

Read the full Q & A here.