That’s the title of an illuminating post by Professor Mitchell Langbert writing at Democracy Project.
Langbert is astoundingly iconoclastic. He writes, “It is entirely possible that human capital can be more effectively enhanced through alternative institutions that have not received state support. The fact that universities depend on extraordinary degrees of government largesse and donations suggests that the economic returns due to the human capital that they produce do not justify the universities’ extent.”
Read the whole thing.
Hat tip: Candace de Russy.
