HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The Holocaust as ‘white on white crime’ and other signs of intellectual decay at Oberlin. “I found the entire Facebook post of great interest, not just as a troubling sign of emerging hostility to Jews and Jewish concerns among self-proclaimed social justice advocates on left-wing campuses, but as an equally troubling sign of the degradation of intellectual discourse at such campuses more generally, as reason, compassion and just plain old decent manners are replaced with shrill sloganeering based on which group can most successfully proclaim itself to be a victim.”

On the one hand, higher education is more expensive than ever. On the other hand, it’s less valuable than ever. On the gripping hand, what are we going to do about this?