Delivering the Post
The
Washington Post's Jonathan Yardley weighs in with his
review. . .
As happens so often with this story, Yardley misrepresents what happened with me in the waning months of
George magazine. Someday, perhaps, I'll write about this, if only to set the record straight. But right now, I'm deeply bored of the subject. (And I suspect I'm not the only one.) Besides, Yardley's account is so deeply indebted to Nexis, it will likely live on, regardless of anything I write. The power of information technology....
Yardley does recommend that readers who want to delve more deeply into the subject of the commercialization of higher education would do well to read Derek Bok's
book,
Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education, and I couldn't agree more. Bok does an excellent job of exploring the issues in this phenomenon, and I was surprised that his book didn't get more attention when it came out in 2003; it strikes unnervingly close to home (i.e., Harvard) in a number of instances.
