More and more, sending your kids off to college is like paying big bucks to take them to an outrageously overpriced restaurant despite knowing that youâre going to get food poisoning, and despite knowing that the waitstaff are going to try to make your kids hate you.
Why on earth do we keep doing it? Well, because our kids need to show the receipt for that terrible dining experience to prospective employers if they want to land a job. Itâs madness.
Things arenât getting any better at the academy, either. In fact, theyâre getting worse. Eric Kaufmann ought to know. Heâs a professor of politics at the University of Londonâs Birkbeck College and a board member at an organization called the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.