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Are Universities Doomed?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In a famous exchange in the The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway wrote: “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.” “Gradually” and “suddenly” applies to higher education’s implosion. During the 1990s “culture wars” universities were warned that their chronic tuition hikes above the rate of inflation were

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The Outlaw Campus

The university has become a rogue institution in need of root-and-branch reform. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online  Two factors have so far shielded the American university from the sort of criticism that it so freely levels against almost every other institution in American life. (1) For decades a college education has been considered

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America’s Coastal Royalty

The real national divide isn’t between red and blue states. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online  The densely populated coastal corridors from Boston to Washington and from San Diego to Berkeley are where most of America’s big decisions are made. They remind us of two quite different Americas: one country along these coasts and

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