Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“I was happy to sign the Manhattan Statement on Higher Education. Yes, I oppose all government support for education. But if government is going to fund education, it has a fiduciary responsibility to taxpayers to get good value for their money. And the Manhattan Statement is a careful effort to do precisely that. The Trump administration’s proposed Compact for Academic Excellence is considerably less careful. Most egregiously, two of its provisions directly contradict each other.” (11/05/25)