HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: An Impending Coup at St. John’s College.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: “Nothing is too big to fail, including civilizations, and ours is no exception.”

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: For True Equality, Ban The Box: The College Box. “College is sold as a source of social mobility because getting an education improves your chance of getting a job. But there’s another way of looking at things: College isn’t so much a source of mobility as the lack of college is a barrier to moving up, a barrier that disproportionately affects the poor. . . . So if you want equality, the best thing to do is to ban employers from asking students where they went to school and, perhaps, even if they went to college at all.”

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO HARASS: ‘My married, cougar boss fired me when I ended our affair.’

PSST, HEY BUDDY—THE FIRST ROLE OF THE 20-SIDED DICE IS FREE: How To Tell if the Person You’re Talking to is into RPGs, from Moe Lane at the PJ Lifestyle section. (I suppose asking he’s a member of Friends of Gygax could also work…)

FOR AN ISLAMIC LAW SCHOOL, THEY WOULD HAVE GREASED THE SKIDS: More On The Accreditation Battle Over Canada’s First Christian Law School.

IF YOU DON’T SUPPORT NUCLEAR POWER, YOU’RE NOT SERIOUS ABOUT “CLIMATE CHANGE:” Scientific American joins the Push for Emission Free Nuclear Power.

Here in East Tennessee, we’re doing our best to save the planet: TVA’s Watts Bar Unit 2 Produces Electricity for the First Time. “The TVA’s Watts Bar nuclear Unit 2 generated electricity onto its power grid for the first time, Friday, June 3. Watts Bar Unit 2 is officially synced to the grid and licensed reactor operators have begun an initial test run of generation equipment. The team is using this run to collect data to be sure generating equipment is prepared for continuous full-power operation later this summer. . . . Once all power ascension tests have been completed successfully, Watts Bar Unit 2 will provide up to 1,150 megawatts of safe, low-cost, carbon-free electricity to the Tennessee Valley. Combined with Watts Bar Unit 1, the plant will supply power to roughly 1.3 million homes in the TVA service area.”

HAVE SUPERCAR, WILL TRAVEL: “Fred Plan didn’t intend for his first-generation Acura NSX to become his daily driver. And he definitely didn’t expect to road-trip it across the U.S. But almost 90,000 miles later, he wouldn’t have it any other way.” There’s a guy in my neighborhood who has one of these first-gen NSX’s and I see him driving it a lot. For supercar reliability, a Honda is a good choice.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What Do You Read On Your Phone While Standing In Line?

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: For True Equality, Ban The Box: The College Box. “College is sold as a source of social mobility because getting an education improves your chance of getting a job. But there’s another way of looking at things: College isn’t so much a source of mobility as the lack of college is a barrier to moving up, a barrier that disproportionately affects the poor. . . . So if you want equality, the best thing to do is to ban employers from asking students where they went to school and, perhaps, even if they went to college at all.”

Plus: “Without relying on colleges as a foundation for credentialism, we’d have to find some other way to assess candidates. But odds are it would be something more closely associated with actual performance on the job: A competency test, for example, or an apprenticeship program. These kinds of credentials would be faster and easier to acquire — and less tied to pre-existing privilege — than college degrees are now, and less likely to promote old-boy (or -girl) networks that freeze out newcomers. They’d probably work better for employers, too.”

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER, I GUESS: Sanders finally raises challenge to Clinton Foundation cronyism.

FRAN COOMBS: The Undecideds Have It.

Right now Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are going nowhere.

Rasmussen Reports’ regular polling shows them both hovering around 40% support where they’ve been for weeks. Throw the most prominent third-party candidate in the mix, Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson, and they both drop only slightly.

In both matchups, though, there remain an unusually high number of voters who prefer some other candidate or are still undecided. Undecideds in single digits are not unusual at this stage of the election season, but when nearly one-in-four voters say they’ll vote third-party or stay home, it’s time to wonder why.

Are they really looking for another candidate? Are they still trying to make up their minds between Clinton and Trump? Or are they just not telling the truth?

Nobody knows.

Candidates usually risk doom by ignoring the pollsters, but in 2016 Trump might be on the right track.

HILLARY CLINTON CAN’T SAY IF GUN OWNERSHIP IS A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT.

It depends upon what the meaning of “is,” which allows us to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1124.

ROGER SIMON: Butterflies Aren’t Free—Publishing a Book in the Age of Trump.

Roger’s new book, scheduled for publication on June 14th is I Know Best: How Moral Narcissism Is Destroying Our Republic, If It Hasn’t Already.

In addition to the upcoming interviews he mentions in his latest article, Roger will be discussing his new book in person this December at Bullets & Bourbon in Texas.

LESSONS FROM THE FALL OF ROME: The Stages Of Grief At The Frontier. “First, there is the gradual recognition that imperial forces were not what they used to be. The tangible presence of the empire was disappearing, and the towns were losing their main security providers. ‘So long as the Roman dominion lasted, soldiers were maintained in many towns at the public expense to guard the boundary wall. When this custom ceased, the squadrons of soldiers and the boundary wall were blotted out together.’ But the gradual withdrawal of Roman troops did not seem to have had a shocking impact on the locals, who perhaps did not notice immediately that their security required the presence of armed men. Indeed, few consider how security and deterrence are maintained while peace reigns.”

Plus: “Second, after the reassuring presence of imperial might has vanished, the next stage does not include calls for defense or balancing or stronger walls. No. It is the stage of disbelief and self-delusion. As Roman power waned, the locals comforted themselves with the delusion that the threats did not exist or, if they did, that the menace was not great. Perhaps the enemies would seek other targets. Perhaps the walls would suffice. Perhaps the barbarians liked peace and commerce as much as they did. Perhaps they would just go away. Perhaps they would peacefully blend in. The list of possible justifications for this delusion is as long as it is wrong.”

HOPE: Panama Papers Show How Rich United States Clients Hid Millions Abroad.

In recent weeks, the papers’ revelations about Mossack Fonseca’s international clientele have shaken the financial world. The Times’s examination of the files found that Mossack Fonseca also had at least 2,400 United States-based clients over the past decade, and set up at least 2,800 companies on their behalf in the British Virgin Islands, Panama, the Seychelles and other jurisdictions that specialize in helping hide wealth.

Many of these transactions were legal; there are legitimate reasons to create offshore accounts, particularly when setting up a business overseas or buying real estate in a foreign country.

But the documents — confidential emails, copies of passports, ledgers of bank transactions and even the various code names used to refer to clients — show that the firm did much more than simply create offshore shell companies and accounts. For many of its American clients, Mossack Fonseca offered a how-to guide of sorts on skirting or evading United States tax and financial disclosure laws.

If we had a comprehensible tax code and reasonable tax rates, shell games like these — and the political bottom-feeders who facilitate them — wouldn’t exist.

UH OH, HILLARY: Media: Bernie Sanders is Currently Winning the Democratic Primary Race.

MICHAEL LEDEEN: What Is Hillary Hiding?

Hillary? Hiding something? What on earth gives you that idea?

ARIZONA GOP SENATOR JEFF FLAKE: I can’t support Donald Trump at this point.

“It’s uncomfortable not having endorsed the Republican nominee, I have to say, but I can’t at this point,” Mr. Flake said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

“I hope to be able to support the nominee. I certainly can’t right now,” Mr. Flake said.

Even Republican leaders who have said they’ll support Mr. Trump, such as House Speaker Paul D. Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have distanced themselves from Mr. Trump’s attacks on Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is overseeing one of the cases alleging fraud against Trump University.

Mr. Trump has said Judge Curiel has a conflict of interest because he has Mexican ancestry and Mr. Trump has pledged to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

“His statements this week on the judge — that’s a new level,” Mr. Flake said. “Because it’s not just … ill-informed or ignorant statements, but they suggest that when he’s president, you know, after November, that … perhaps he ought to go after that judge. That’s a whole new level. So that’s — it’s very disturbing.”

To be fair, it’s nothing new under the Obama Administration, but it might be a whole new level for a Republican.

BECAUSE IT PUTS A SIX-FIGURE NUMBER OF VOTES IN HILLARY’S POCKET: Why Virginia’s Restoration Of Felons’ Voting Rights Matters.