The Cautionary Tale of David Boren

There's a great beauty in truth, even when it's, in fact, a cautionary tale.

I would suggest that if the university wants to truly honor the legacy of Boren—not King David, but the David who became a statewide name for taking on Goliath, in the name of transparency, even as it seemed pointless to do so—it should drop its obstruction and release the report.

The carefully qualified statement of Tom Cole said it all. One of the high…