We face a twofold crisis in higher education: While tuition costs and student-loan debt skyrocket, our students far too often learn precious little of what they need to succeed as employees, citizens, and independent thinkers.
Higher Education
Don’t Shrink the Core. Fix It.
Just how bad is American higher education today? Consider this observation on today’s college students from Jessica Wilson, a professor of great books and humanities at Pepperdine: “It’s not even an inability to critically think. It’s an inability to read sentences.” She is not alone. Professors at elite colleges report that many incoming students arrive...
July 31, 2026