Phi Beta Cons

Share the Wealth?

Inside Higher Ed today has a piece on the tendency for the rich in higher education to get much, much richer through superb investments.
While we’re hearing many presidential aspirants demanding higher taxes on rich people who supposedly need to be compelled to share their wealth (with the government), to my knowledge, none of them has called for such “sharing” between colleges and universities.

George Leef is the the director of editorial content at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. He is the author of The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale: A Political Fable for Our Time.
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