The Credentialed Society – By Michael Walsh – The Corner – National Review Online. I am quite in sympathy with the argumentative point of this piece; higher education, such as it presently is, is overvalued by both suppliers (in terms of what they charge for it and what they promise by it) and by consumers … Continue reading
Sean Tevis, a forty year old self-described ‘information architect,’ suffered a setback to his bid to become the United States Representative from Kansas’ 2nd district on Tuesday, finishing third in that (rather red) state’s Democratic primary. As a New Yorker not paid to know the political preferences of Kansans in August, perhaps my mention of … Continue reading
Here is a conversation piece from the Economist year-end issue. Pros will no doubt find enough to nit-pick over, but I’m more interested in its ‘sociological’ take on Socrates and the Athens-America parallel. The attributed resemblance between Socrates and Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert is a bit rich, but if you want to think about … Continue reading
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