Thus is titled Walter Russell Mead’s probably-not-meant-to-be-cheerful analysis of how our current higher education system is merrily spinning its way towards a thoroughgoing smash-up at the base of the cliff – got to love those mixed metaphors, huh? Anyway, the basic ‘problem’ is that we’re producing mediocre ‘scholarship’ that nobody reads, let alone actually uses; and that increasing numbers of people are going to be reluctant to actually pay for. I respond to this scenario with all the righteous fury of a liberal arts major (BA, English Literature, with a minor in History): chop. CHOP.
Or is that the response of the partisan Republican tired of subsidizing partisan Democrats? Ach, well, works either way.
Moe Lane
(Via Instapundit)
Well, deep roots are not reached by the frost, so we shouldn’t worry.