States are paying teachers less in real terms than they did twenty years ago. The shortage is not a mystery. It is a predictable outcome of choices made with full knowledge of the consequences.
Boys are falling behind in education, men are withdrawing from the workforce and from relationships. Understanding why requires being more honest than most political factions are willing to be.
The American university is being asked to do more than it was designed for and less than its tuition justifies. What four years of higher education actually delivers — and to whom.
The system we built to replace aristocracy has become a new aristocracy — one that is more entrenched, more self-righteous, and more damaging than the one it replaced.