Most of my blogging has moved elsewhere, but I do still occasionally blog here. So this is the top 5 most viewed posts of the year: What’s more important: a college degree or being born rich? Education and poverty, again 3 theses on higher education Admitted fuck up Ezra Klein is less interested in inequality… Continue reading Top 5 posts of the year
Category: Notes
Salon: The 1 percent’s Ivy League loophole
Elizabeth Stoker (@e_stoker) and I had a post over at Salon today about tax subsidies for alumni donations used to grease the wheels of legacy admissions. Here is an excerpt: But if this is true, then alumni donations are not donations at all. Rather, they’re implicit transactions: alumni pay universities and receive additional admissions consideration… Continue reading Salon: The 1 percent’s Ivy League loophole
Me at Demos
The good folks over at Demos have given me an opportunity to write for their Policy Shop blog. So I will begin posting relevant things over there. Those things not relevant to their blog will of course keep coming here. If you want to keep track of what I am writing here and there, I… Continue reading Me at Demos
My top five posts in 2012
What follows is a list of my top five posts from 2012, as measured by pageviews. Popular posts are not necessarily the best posts, but I think most of these are pretty good on the merits as well. The hidden gem in Romney’s disaster speech Piracy really costs the economy nothing The strange and scary… Continue reading My top five posts in 2012
Database failure wiped out comments
I had a database failure, and for some reason reader comments are not showing up. Because I use disqus, I know those comments are not actually stored in my database. So there is some hope that I will recover them. But for the time, they are gone. Just in case you were wondering. Edit: They’re… Continue reading Database failure wiped out comments