Over at Phi Beta Cons, Candace de Russy posts a translated item from an Arabic paper reporting that Australia is now the number-one destination for Saudi foreign students because of tougher U.S. security standards. The security benefits of this development are obvious — less obvious is the fact that every foreign student, without exception, is subsidized by the taxpayer and/or alumni, and it’s not clear to me why we should be subsidizing any Saudis to study here.