Why (Yale) College Matters The Crimson reports that a Yale junior has won a New York Times essay contest on the subject, "Why College Matters."

The Yalie, Nicholas Handler, beat out at least five Harvard students, the Crimson notes.

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.

...In his essay, Handler responded that the lack of massive protests and student takeovers of administrative buildings is merely the result of the digital revolution, which has transferred the free expression of ideas from the picket lines to the Internet.

I'm pleased to see that Handler is a staff member of The New Journal, the magazine where journalists such as Hampton Sides, Jay Carney, Neela Banerjee, Daniel Yergin, Jim Sleeper and yours truly got their start....  ¶ 7:57 AM