I think one thing that fuels the current dysfunctions of higher education in this country is the extent to which older people -- and especially university administrators and faculty -- have lost touch with how basic shifts in the American economy have left young people...
Author: Paul Campos
I suggest some possible explanations, and also try to break down the question of who should be going to law school, given current circumstances.
I'm looking for striking recent examples of upper class whining about how it's hard out there for people living on not that much more than 200K a year, and who.
Student loan debt in the US is approaching one trillion dollars (up from$180 billion a decade ago). Most of this debt is government-guaranteed and non-dischargeable -- a combination which has very predictable effects for debtors and tax payers (they get shafted), and equally predictable effects...
Most academics at research universities engage in two kinds of teaching: the general edification of undergraduates, and the professional training of graduate students who, in theory at least, are being.
I started a blog a couple of weeks ago regarding the questionable state of contemporary legal education, which I initially authored anonymously, for reasons I explain in a couple of.
Scott's post makes me wonder just when Rick Perry started thinking seriously about running for president. Yglesias points out that the book Fed Up, which appeared under Perry's name nine months ago, argues that the modern administrative state is basically unconstitutional (with a bit of...
It was probably just my imagination running away with me, but I thought last night the USMNT already looked more fluid and creative under Klinsmann than they did under Bradley..
Nina Power in the Guardian on the larger context of the London riots: Those condemning the events of the past couple of nights in north London and elsewhere would do.
As America prepares to party like it's 1899, we need to ponder whether you can tell anything by looking into a man's (or woman's) eyes. Lisa: You know Bart, Pablo Neruda says the eyes are mirrors of the soul. Bart: (clearly offended) I am familiar...
I forget which French intellectual said that anyone who wants to understand America needs to understand baseball. This is probably an exaggeration, but while staring at this box score and.
Of course in the contemporary GOP having a really bad college transcript is just a form of anti-intellectual street cred. (That C in gym would be a big problem for.