Outside the Beltway

There’s a trend toward using metrics to identify ways to stem the skyrocketing cost of higher education. The likeliest result is to devalue the “education” component.

Jonah Goldberg observes, “It took 410 days to build the Empire State Building; four years to erect the Golden Gate Bridge. The Pentagon took two years; the Alaska Highway just nine months. These days it takes longer to build an overpass.”

Who’s to blame for the rise in anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, President Obama or those who have actually been encouraging bias against Muslims?

Glenn Reynolds “The Higher Education Bubble, and What Comes Next” lecture at Clemson (video).

Ken Levine has some advice for aspiring writers: Forget about slaving over plots and character development. Instead, sleep your way around campus and write about it.

Bill Jacobson and Glenn Reynolds seem to be overly amused that Conor Friedersdorf has the title of “senior editor” over at Andrew Sullivan’s blog.

In news that will no doubt please the estimable Glenn Reynolds, DARPA has taken a big step toward the long-awaited flying car: Flying Humvees

Subsidizing the markers of middle class attainment may undermine the traits that lead to it.

Taking a short trip back in time via Instapundit’s archives reveals a September 11th post that turned out to be prophetic.

Comments sections on larger blogs seem inevitably to turn into cesspools. Is it worth trying to stop it happening?

Career fields dominated by women tend to pay less than those dominated by men. But gender discrimination isn’t the main reason.

A helpful guide to the pleasures of navigating our nation’s capital by car, bike, or foot.

Some lawyers make a fabulous salary right out of law school. Most don’t.

In conjunction with Father’s Day, the Obama administration unveiled Fatherhood.gov, a website offering advice to men on raising kids. Why is this a job for the federal government?