An economist makes a powerful case against education.

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If it is true that the proposed college endowment tax is a veiled means of punishing higher education for perceived biases, then Republican may have begun to recognize that politics often involves punishing enemies and rewarding allies. There is little doubt that higher education generally is hostile to conservatives.

As the Trumpian GOP falls in Virginia and Alabama, it’s time for the religious right to find another path.

A small Christian student group was expelled from theUniversity of Iowa campus because they required the leaders of their organization to be Christian. The university is now facing a lawsuit for constitutional violations of freedom of religion and association.

James O’Keefe, whose conservative Project Veritas specializes in hidden-camera exposés of purported liberal bias, spoke last month with little fanfare at a hotel near Middlebury College. The mystery of who arranged his speech tantalized the campus.

The American education system has long been in crisis. Edwin Benson’s book, Can America’s Schools Be Saved? How the Ideology of American Education Is Destroying It helps explain what has gone wrong.