Outside the Beltway

My latest for RealClearDefense: “Senator Walsh’s Unrepresentative Black Mark on Professional Military Education”

While it’s been much derided in recent years, there’s a definite economic benefit to obtaining a college degree,

Today’s foreign-policy disputes rarely consider the way America’s response to one crisis might affect another.

The Affirmative Action debate is too divisive and largely misses the point.

Most peer-reviewed research is crap.

Is Harvard University the Lake Wobegon of the Ivy League or are Harvard students really that smart?

Some thoughts on reform.

The military’s finance and accounting system has been dysfunctional for decades and is getting worse.

NYU’s Geoffrey Miller has done a groundbreaking study connecting obesity, and particularly the consumption of simple carbohydrates, with failure to complete doctoral dissertations.

The same story yet again.

If kids practiced French two hours a day . . .

A rich child is 45 percent more likely to earn a four-year college degree than a poor one.

Conor Friedersdorf contends “The U.S. Already Had a Conversation About Guns—and the Pro Side Won.”

An Atlantic story on veterans returning to college is both poignant and miscast.

Dan Nexon often gets asked by prospective candidates how they might improve their chances at getting into a PhD program in political science.

Private college degree mills have come under intense scrutiny. But many public institutions have similar statistics.

The major you choose in college will have an impact on your future.

Movie theater snacks are expensive. This is not cause for a lawsuit.

A man who has three degrees from three public universities considers the President of the United States a “snob.”

Most people forget most of what they learn in school. Should we call the whole thing off?

Usually if a quote is too good to be true, it is.

Trying to construct Gingrich’s c.v.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor abruptly canceled a long-scheduled speech to the Wharton Business School after school officials changed the guest list.

A consultant for would-be academics, says she wouldn’t have a job if professors would do theirs.

Political journalists aren’t like you and me. Well, you, anyway.

Schools of education attract the weakest students and give out the highest grades on campus.

So, you want a career in foreign policy field and are weighing your options….

Will the Fed announce another round of Quantitative Easing?

More people are chasing careers in film than there are careers in film. And not just in front of the camera.

Do ideologically radical professors impose their biases on their students?

Canada is much friendlier than the United States with regard to immigration.

Do graduates of elite colleges earn more because of where they went to school? Or because of the traits that got them selected?

Does that degree you get at the end of your four years of college really mean anything anymore, and is it worth the money you paid for it?

US News & World Report is going to stop printing magazines, except for a handful of niche issues like the annual college and graduate school ranking guides.

Neither Law Schools nor law students are admitting the fact that the legal market has changed significantly.

Are new war strategies putting too much strain on commanders in the field ?

Laura Sjoberg informs us that she is working to form a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Queer, and Allies Caucus of the International Studies Association .