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Jenna Bush and the Meritocracy
Adam Serwer is incensed because he has “a lot of friends who spent a great deal of money, and went into a lot of debt, to learn how to be professional broadcast journalists” who are “now struggling to...
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Midnight College
Boston’s Bunker Hill Community College is experimenting with midnight classes. Wick Sloane, who teaches a full class from 11:45 pm to 2:45 am, explains: Two thirds of my class this morning enrolled at...
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Ressentiment Creep
Earlier this week, Julian Sanchez penned a piece titled “The Politics of Ressentiment” to explain the Sarah Palin and Tea Party phenomena. It challenges Conor Friedersdorf‘s notion that Palin’s...
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What’s a University, Anyway?
The juxtaposition of two stories this morning both amused and bemused me. First, the state of New York has forced Donald Trump to change the name of Trump University on account of it not being, you...
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Harvard and Yale Über Alles?
It seems that George Mason lawprof David Bernstein has spotted a trend: The president went to Harvard, and barely defeated a primary opponent who went to Yale. His predecessor went to Yale and Harvard,...
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Is Ivy League Education Worth the Cost?
Nick Gillespie points to a NYT story asking “Is Going to an Elite College Worth the Cost?” At first, the answer appears obvious: Among the most cited research on the subject — a paper by economists...
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ROTC Returning to Ivies
Friday’s repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy will end another controversy, as many of the nation’s elite universities have lost their excuse for not hosting ROTC programs. Bill Kristol, that...
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