{"id":90371,"date":"2013-05-22T05:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=90371"},"modified":"2026-08-06T06:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:34:00","slug":"the-higher-education-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=90371","title":{"rendered":"The Higher Education Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2013\/05\/20\/the_higher_education_scandal_118473.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, is an institution of good reputation and high quality, where I have some friends. It offers a liberal arts education typical of the best available in America today. It troubles me that Bowdoin, rather than, say, Harvard\u2014a bigger and richer place where I work\u2014should be made an example of. Nonetheless, Peter Wood and Michael Toscano have done just that in a comprehensive new study, \u201cWhat Does Bowdoin Teach?\u201d the first of its kind and probably destined to be the best, which shows in the practices and principles of one college what political correctness in our time has done to higher education in our country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, is an institution of good reputation and high quality, where I have some friends. It offers a liberal arts education typical of the best available in America today. It troubles me that Bowdoin, rather than, say, Harvard\u2014a bigger and richer place where I work\u2014should be made an example [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408526,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90371\/revisions\/408526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}