Today’s Between the Covers podcast is with Ben Wildavsky, author of The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World. We discuss whether a global market in higher education is good for Americans, whether this means the end of the developing world’s “brain drain,” and whether schools in other countries will turn into bastions of left-wing political correctness, as have so many in the United States. Before he joined the Kauffman Foundation and turned to book writing, Ben was education editor at U.S. News, where he helped put together the annual list of college rankings. More on that here.