“You don’t want to send your son there because he’ll become a communist, he’ll become a drug addict.” That’s the modern consensus about elite colleges and universities, so why pay for modern education? Except that the quote that begins this piece is from the 1960s. It was a parent telling another parent to not […]
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What’s firstly puzzling about the right’s Ivy League and Ivy League-adjacent hatred, and the belief that so much of what ails us is an effect of what “they’re teaching” on campus, is that so many of their own attended Ivy League schools themselves. Tom Cotton attended Harvard and Harvard Law, Ted Cruz went to
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Back in the 1980s and 1990s, and likely before that, the University of Southern California (USC) had the reputation of a “safety school.” The biggest challenge to what some referred to as the University of Spoiled Children was the nosebleed tuition, not attaining the proverbial fat envelope. Fast forward to the present, and USC
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