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...claim continually that cutting capital-gains taxes will help ordinary Americans is either disingenuous or an outright lie. The vast majority of these taxes are paid by the superwealthy, and cutting these taxes will help only them. Daren Perlstein LA CA�ADA FLINTRIDGE, CALIF...
...College, Perlstein wrote, is no longer a place for creative exploration, but rather for infantilization by highly scheduled student bureaucracies where students tailor their fun for their resumes...
Nicholas Handler’s prize-winning essay was written in response to an article by historian Rick Perlstein arguing that American college campuses are no longer the incubators of radical thought they were in the 1960s because of a modern-day obsession with market-centered thinking...
...used to be the case that Pell Grants covered 75 percent of the average tuition, and now it covers a third,” Perlstein said. “People are suffering a great deal more economic anxiety in this ‘you’re all on your own’ political culture.” It only follows that students would be less inclined to take the risks and make the less vocationally-concerned choices that previous generations were...
...Perlstein put it, “It’s a lot harder to get into and stay in the middle class nowadays...