The English language is not strong enough, nor are my skills in using it, to fully describe the unmitigated disaster that the federal program of financial assistance for college students has been, especially in the case of student loans. That program has: Incentivized academic mediocrity and penalized academic merit and accomplishment; Materially raised the cost […]
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“Hath not a Jew eyes? … If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?” These are not the words of Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s from William Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. Once upon a time, the “educated” in the Anglophone West would have known this. Sadly, this is […]
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