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Sunday, June 14, 2015

Ron Lieber of the New York Times published an antidote to Lee Siegel's poisionous essay about the virtues of student-loan default

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An antidote is a substance given to counteract the effects of poisoning; and yesterday, Ron Lieber, a New York Times reporter, published th...
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Friday, June 12, 2015

Lee Siegel is not the poster child for the student loan crisis: Single mothers are more typical of defaulting student-loan borrowers than self-proclaimed cultural critics

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It is unfortunate--truly unfortunate--that the New York Times chose to publishe Lee Siegel's op ed essay in which he defended his decis...
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Thursday, June 11, 2015

Student Loan Forgiveness for Students Who Attended One of the Schools Owned by Corinthian Colleges: I Recommend Chiang Kai-Shek's Fire Hose Approach

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Chiang Kai-shek was the  leader of the Nationalist government of China for many years, but he was also a Methodist of sorts. I read somewher...
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Hurtling toward catastrophe at warp speed: How the cost of higher education spun out of control

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I recently attended a small dinner party in my neighborhood. Only seven guests attended, and three of them shared personal experiences about...
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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Lee Siegel foolishly touts the virtues of student-loan default in a New York Times op ed essay

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Lee Siegel, a successful writer, defaulted on his student loans;  and he bragged about it in the New York Times . In a  Times op ed essay...
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Monday, May 11, 2015

Senator Elizabeth Warren and the Brookings Institution's Matthew Chingos are ignoring reality: The federal government is not making a profit off the student-loan program

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Do you believe the federal government is making a profit off the student loan program? You do? Then I have some beautiful beachfront propert...
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Sunday, May 3, 2015

An episode of The Walking Dead: Why did the U.S. Department of Education oppose bankruptcy relief for a quadriplegic student-loan debtor?

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America's insolvent student-loan debtors are the walking dead America's student-loan crisis is beginning to resemble an episode o...
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