How about a 10 percent cut in tuition?
In a day when college costs defy gravity as a rule, it sounds like a fantasy. But the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., recently cut tuition by 10 percent, creating quite a stir. Academic pundits have
In recent months, I've written in these pages about a "higher education bubble" - the notion that America is spending more than it can afford on higher education, driven by the kind of cheap credit (and mass infatuation) that fueled
Nobody wants to say it, but a major reason why corporations are not creating many jobs and expanding in the U.S. is due to increasing systemic risk being created by Washington. The U.S. is supposedly in economic recovery, yet
As someone who teaches at a law school, and sees his students go out into the world, I am predisposed to like law. When I practiced law at a big firm here in Washington, D.C., I enjoyed it and I felt like we helped our clients with their problems,
With the new Congress being sworn in this week, everyone is full of advice. Well, I'm no exception.
The first advice comes from Han Solo in the debut "Star Wars" film: "Don't get cocky." Republicans won big in the
With the election over, Republicans are arguing about whether they should address Democrats via compromise, or confrontation. Both have their places, but I have a different suggestion.
Clarity.
With the deficit and the debt ballooning, with
I spent several years of the Clinton administration writing about one scandal or controversy after another.
There was, of course, the Whitewater affair and the fight over the independent counsel, Kenneth Starr. There was the Lewinsky matter.
Free markets are not perfect. That is one lesson of today’s ongoing economic crisis. But an even more important lesson is that government is not perfect. Politicians have done more than businessmen to drive America’s economy into a ditch.
As we
