The Last Man Comes Full Circle

From Allan Bloom’s lecture halls to the Iraq War’s intellectual wreckage, a memoir of how a neoconservative movement insider became a dissenter.

How Francis Fukuyama and “The Big Lebowski” Explain Trump’s Victory

Looking at constituencies or issues misses the big point. On Tuesday, nihilism was on display, even a death wish, in a society wrought by cynicism.

Francis Fukuyama’s calm evisceration of illiberalism on the left and right.

A new report makes a nuanced case for what post-secondary graduates need to get ahead.

by Bruno V. Manno

Congress finally opened Pell Grants to short-term job training. Now states have to build the systems that can tell which programs actually work.

by Bruno V. Manno

High costs, political attacks take a toll as fewer students come, top scholars leave.

by Jon Marcus

New survey data suggests that more Americans might see the value of a degree if schools simplified their pricing systems.

by Michael T. Nietzel