“Because they can. Who’s gonna stop them?” is the answer author Andrew Ferguson received from Ohio University economist and higher ed reformer Richard Vedder.

In this week’s edition of Uncommon Knowledge, Ferguson talks with host Peter Robinson about his latest book Crazy U. Check it out.

Another insightful bit from the interview: In America,

“we believe that everyone should go [to college], but at the same time, we don’t know why. Is it supposed to be leisure time for spiritual nourishment so you can read the best that’s been thought and said and so on or is it training for a job or is it, as in the case of many people, a booze cruise? … This confusion dates all the way back to the democratization of higher education [following World War II]. … And we’re the only country that suffers from it, too.”