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College for all: a contrived issue, a phony debate

America is in the midst of a pointless, distracting debate grounded in a stupid, offensive question: College for all?

Washington Post writer Robert Samuelson caused a stir when he declared it was time to ditch the idea of college for all, which had outlived its usefulness. He writes about economics, which is obvious from his first paragraph:

"It looms as the largest mistake in educational policy since World War II, even though higher education's expansion also ranks as one of America's great postwar triumphs."