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Harvard Should Pay Its Fair Share
24Dec By adminNo Comments
Business

Harvard Should Pay Its Fair Share

What can we do about the corruption of American higher education? Milton Friedman had an idea 20 years ago: Tax the schools rather than subsidize them. That reflected a change of heart. In “Capitalism and Freedom” (1960), he argued that college education had enough “positive externalities” to justify subsidies. But when I was researching a book in 2003, I emailed him (then 91) and asked if he still believed that.He replied: “I have not changed my view that higher education has some positive externality, but I have become much more aware that it also has negative externalities. I am much more dubious than I was . . . that there is any justification at all for government subsidy of higher education. The spread of PC”—political correctness—“would seem to be a very strong negative externality...
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An “Academic Transformation” Takes On the Math Department
29Nov By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

An “Academic Transformation” Takes On the Math Department

About twenty years ago, Olgur Celikbas attended a conference on algebra in Turkey. He and his then girlfriend, Ela Özçağlar, had recently graduated from college in Ankara; both had studied math. At the time, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln had one of the top commutative-algebra programs in the world, and professors at the conference sold Olgur on the idea of going to America for grad school. Ela was less sure. “I was, like, ‘Where’s Nebraska?’ ” she recalled. She asked her father, a geography professor. He said something about a corn ocean.Ela and Olgur got married, moved to Nebraska, and obtained Ph.D.s in mathematics. They began looking for academic positions, but finding jobs in the same place felt like “the most difficult two-body problem in the world,” Ela said. They got temporary...
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America’s Business Community Is AWOL in Local Politics
27Oct By adminNo Comments
Health

America’s Business Community Is AWOL in Local Politics

Oct. 27, 2023 12:22 pm ETNew YorkAmerica’s business community directs most of its political efforts at the national level, which it perceives to be the most relevant to its interests. But in many cities, particularly in the Northeast, local government leads the charge to regulate business, particularly with respect to employment.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Don’t Hire My Anti-Semitic Law Students
15Oct By adminNo Comments
Health

Don’t Hire My Anti-Semitic Law Students

By Steven Davidoff SolomonI teach corporate law at the University of California, Berkeley, and I’m an adviser to the Jewish law students association. My students are largely engaged and well-prepared, and I regularly recommend them to legal employers. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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The Virtues and the Sins of Big-Time High-School Football
23Aug By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

The Virtues and the Sins of Big-Time High-School Football

In 2012, Sports Illustrated published a feature about an intriguing new phenomenon: a high-school football powerhouse that was not, strictly speaking, a high school. The Eastern Christian Honey Badgers, as the team was known, called Elkton, Maryland, their home. They lifted weights at a Y.M.C.A. and practiced on an unmarked field and took online classes through an organization called National Connections Academy—“an approved nontraditional course provider,” in the eyes of prospective colleges. The driving force behind the Honey Badgers was the father of the starting quarterback, naturally. He developed real estate in Delaware. The kid was something of a prodigy. But Delaware is no Texas, and, rather than uproot the family in search of better local competition, the father recruited a suppo...
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