The Cost of Prestige: How American Universities Are Losing Their Way

Expanding Bureaucracy, Shrinking Education

In recent decades, American universities have become emblematic of broader crises facing the country—rising costs, increasing elitism, and a pervasive sense of ideological conformity. The once-noble goal of higher education as a vehicle for social mobility and intellectual growth is being eclipsed by a relentless drive for profit, prestige, and ideologi…