Rather than comment, I thought I'd add my take to Erik's post below. Essentially, I don't think it's possible to make generalizations like "it's a terrible idea to get a PhD in 2011." There is one salient difference between the very real problems of doctoral...
Month: November 2011
Larry Cebula offers an argument we hear frequently: that no one should go on for a Ph.D. because there aren't jobs. Cebula covers the basic points: delayed income earnings that.
A few outliers aside, Republicans have stumbling over themselves to critique Obama for the withdrawal from Iraq, despite that fact that this position polls very badly. Some thoughts: 1. As.
Dear Stanford, If you want a vision of the future, imagine a webbed foot stamping on a Cardinal S - forever.
There, I said it. Go Ducks! ...a brief word on the apparent invulnerability of my interest in NCAA athletics. The events of the last few months have, if anything, hardened.
I really hope this class-action lawsuit filed by former unpaid interns over the exploitative nature of their internships at Fox Searchlight Pictures succeeds. The rise of unpaid internships has been.
It's always been my position that the Times needs to run more articles explaining to us the hard lives of the Manhattan rich. Now it turns out they have to pay taxes on their amazing multi-million dollar apartments? What's next, a ban on fur coats?
In addition to everything else wrong with the rank bigotry that NPR feels compelled to take seriously, Sandusky was, you know, married to a woman.
The fact that the Arizona Diamondbacks and agent Scott Boras got into a public spat over the impeding free agency of Willie Bloomquist is, to say the least, the most.
According to Scalia the latest new "Dred Scott" is Kelo, a perfectly straightforward application of precedent perfectly consistent with the text of the Constitution. It seems worth noting at this point that 1)Roe v. Wade is very popular, 2)it will enter its fourth decade next...
While the behavior of some Penn State students has been appalling, as I discussed the other day for the most part the media has been OK. But our commenters have.
Apparently this Jennifer Rubin recommended, Fred Hiatt approved discourse doesn't apply to just any random group of people; the children being fed to the sharks have to be the Right.