Education

Gene Epstein explains what's wrong with today's most popular economics texts. 

A college refuses federal money and hence federal control.

Voucher advocates make an analogy that fits all too well. 

 Why should attorneys be given special legal privileges?

Why public financing of education will compromise private school independence.

Is the market share of education held by universities posed for a long-term decline?

School vouchers transfer money by force, regulate private schools, and are only for the "poor." The facts from IBD.

Conservatives and leftists often characterize the struggle over the contemporary university in the same way, though of course accompanied by opposing value judgments.

Like Martha Nussbaum, whose Cultivating Humanity is addressed above, John M. Ellis is concerned with multiculturalism.