universities

  Public universities suffer from a serious disease: what Milton and Rose Friedman called the tyranny of the status quo. Public universities are direct beneficiaries of central government subsidies that cover staff costs and operating expenses. Only a small portion of these subsidies are performance-based; the remaining part simply covers costs and losses. For instance, […]

  Universities are often idealized as neutral spaces of knowledge creation and critical thinking. However, this image has never been entirely accurate, and it is increasingly at odds with reality. Across many disciplines, research agendas and teaching practices are shaped less by open-ended investigation and more by ideological alignment. The politicization of academic life has […]