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  • Does High School Financial Literacy = Debt Improvement?

    Does High School Financial Literacy = Debt Improvement?0

    In recent years we’ve given students the following message: go to college at all costs. If you can’t afford it, take out student loans. It will be worth it in the long run. Many believe that this message has led college costs to rise at an astronomical rate, a jump which economist Mark Perry describes

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  • Why Women (Still) Aren’t Funny

    Why Women (Still) Aren’t Funny0

    January will mark the 10-year anniversary of Christopher Hitchens’ famous (notorious?) essay, “Why Women Aren’t Funny.” In the impolite article, Hitchens, as only he could do, delivered a devastating exposé explaining the causes behind “the humor gap.” The article enraged female comedians and sparked a slew of indignant (and unfunny) letters to the editor. Looking back,

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  • ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is not a Romance

    ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is not a Romance0

    Romeo and Juliet is not the only Shakespeare play that the modern world, modern critics and modern teachers get wrong. Truth be told, Shakespeare abuse is rampant. Just about every play is being mistaught and misrepresented. Romeo and Juliet is, however, taught more often than most, probably more often than any other of the Bard’s

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  • Why Grad Rates are Meaningless

    Why Grad Rates are Meaningless0

    In a recent Intellectual Takeout piece, Daniel Lattier pointed out that colleges are now having to deal with incoming “book virgins”. To gain admittance to college in the 17th century, students had to be able to read and translate various Latin authors on sight. 100 years ago, students were required to have read various classical works

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  • C.S. Lewis’ theory on why so many modern marriages fail

    C.S. Lewis’ theory on why so many modern marriages fail0

    The last several years have seen a rise in articles sounding alarms about the decline of marriage. A Salon article and its accompanying graph from earlier in the summer are a perfect example. According to Salon, marriage rates have dropped roughly 30 percent since 1980, to 6.9 per 1,000 people, and everything from religious decline

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  • Salaries for College Presidents Are Swelling

    Salaries for College Presidents Are Swelling0

    In a typical week, I get four or five inquiries from media relating to some higher education issue. Five years ago, perhaps five or ten percent of those inquiries related to university executive compensation, especially the salaries of presidents. Now, probably 40-50 percent of the queries are on that topic. The public is increasingly interested

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