Graham Collections

This article by Glen Reynolds sums up what may be the next bubble to burst.
College has gotten a lot more expensive. A recent Money magazine report notes: “After adjusting for financial aid, the amount families pay for college has skyrocketed 439 percent since 1982. … Normal supply and demand can’t begin to explain cost increases [...]

Many times when discussing the past with people, selective memory raises its head. Thomas Sowell writes a great post about how we teach our children about the past selectively and leave them with a warped sense of history.
“If the history of slavery ought to teach us anything, it is that human beings cannot be trusted [...]

Video: Discussion by author Richard Vedder on why college costs so much.
http://reason.tv/video/show/author-richard-vedder-discusse

I have always been in favor of the concept of school vouchers to allow some private enterprise into the school system. This article is about the ending of the voucher program in Washington DC. It is quite a setback for the right to control your students education but a big win for the socialists in [...]

From John Hinderacker at Powerline. The best point is here:
“Experts who are highly paid to invest money, and whose careers depend on being right, fell for Madoff, to the tune of something like $50 billion. Which is why I am extremely skeptical of the idea that we need more government regulation to avert such losses [...]

Vicor Davis Hanson has written a wildly politically incorrect column, most of which makes me chuckle at the things he writes which most people will not say. You should read the whole thing, but here are some highlights.
here is number 4:
“4. After the junk bond meltdown, the S&L debacle, and now the financial panic, in [...]

Marcus Winters writes an interesting article on the value of more effective teachers.
Instead of rewarding classroom effectiveness, public-school systems set salaries strictly on the basis of the number of years logged in the classroom and the number of credits earned toward an advanced degree. However, we know from a wide body of empirical research that, after [...]