Robert Reich: America’s Meritocracy Is a Cruel Joke

Robert Reich / Truthdig Apr 8, 2019 A monstrous concentration of wealth has created a society in which virtually everything is for sale—including Congress and the White House. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

U.S. News & World Report’s College Rankings List Is Baloney. Here’s the List You Should Actually Use

Robert Reich / Truthdig Sep 14, 2015 With college application season almost upon us, where should aspiring college students and their parents look for advice? Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Satirical Film ‘Dear White People’ Invites You to Check Your Privilege

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Jun 23, 2014 "The story revolves around four black kids at a mostly white Ivy League college," director Justin Simien told Amy Goodman in an interview at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. That's the basic premise of Simien's much-awaited debut comedy "Dear White People," a film that promises to do much more than just make you laugh. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Why Boarding Schools Produce Bad Leaders

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 14, 2014 Psychotherapist Nick Duffell spent 25 years treating boarding school graduates. He talks about how their upbringing in elite, authoritarian environments cut off from their families make them the poor public servants we observe in British politics today. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Legacy Students Going to Ivy League on the Public’s Dime

Staff / Truthdig Sep 10, 2013 Alumni donations, which in many top tier institutions are a means to buy admission for less deserving students, are considered tax deductible, charitable gifts; working-class Americans can no longer afford marriage; meanwhile, the NSA can access pretty much any smartphone. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

College: A Lesson in Inequality

Staff / Truthdig May 20, 2013 Rather than bridging economic disparities between students, higher education seems to be widening them; although Google's new customizable maps sound like a great idea, they filter out a lot of useful information; and although some would like to blame the collapse of the middle class on the Internet, truth is it was falling apart long before the World Wide Web. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Philly Judges

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Halloween and Radio Unreality

Staff / Truthdig Nov 1, 2011 A radio show decades ago is misremembered as having caused widespread panic on Halloween; Congress has become just another form of legalized bribery; and the left-wing San Francisco Chronicle has been covering that city's Occupy movement like a right-wing paper. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Cinematic Racism

Staff / Truthdig Apr 29, 2011 Major American movies primarily star white actors; poor white students fall behind black peers in the U.K.; and a Chinese college nixes its plan to prohibit PDA. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Elites Are Having a Tea Party

Moshe Adler / Truthdig Nov 11, 2010 Taxes are the best weapon against the kind of self-perpetuating Ivy League elitism so despised by the tea party. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Chris Hedges on ‘Illusion,’ Corporatism and Inverted Totalitarianism

BLANK Feb 4, 2010 In this interview with Vermont Public Radio's Neal Charnoff, "Empire of Illusion" author and Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges emphasizes what makes his book's argument different from that of the stereotypical elder who disapproves of emerging artistic and cultural forms: "I'm not attacking culture, I'm attacking corporatism," he tells Charnoff. (continued) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Ivy League Musical: Yale Edition

Staff / Truthdig Jan 20, 2010 What would-be matriculators at Yale University might think of this lengthy and cringeworthy musical promotional video, cooked up by a group of the Ivy League school's current undergraduates and recent alumni, is unclear, but we'd like to point out the obvious after enduring a brief run-through of their efforts: Some people have been watching a little too much "Glee." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )