The University of Maryland’s Brit Kirwan isn’t the only higher-ed insider desperately trying to preserve the orthodoxy about college. Yesterday, Terry Hartle of the American Council on Education ventured a piece making the argument that the reason tuition keeps going up has nothing to do with federal subsidies, but instead is due to states cutting back on their support. In this post at Cato @ Liberty, Neal McCluskey refutes Hartle’s argument and then rubs salt in the wound with a recent New York Times article by University of Chicago professor Luigi Zingales, who agrees that government subsidies have both increased the cost and lowered the value of college education.