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Your Taxes: The Board Game!
Welcome to Your Taxes: The Board Game! — the game you can’t not play. This brand-new 2020 edition is sure to challenge even the most skilled player... → Read More
I Want to Apologize for How This Tragedy Has Hurt Our Stock Price
The recent fire at our company’s factory in New Mexico was a truly horrific accident. It has been an upsetting time for all of us, so as CEO I want... → Read More
Our Nation’s Core Values Are Under Siege. Also, Where Are My Keys?
It’s only been two months since this new presidency began, and already my faith in historical progress is being tested. I feel powerless while the ... → Read More
It’s Not You, It’s Structural Injustice
Sara, we need to talk. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately. About us. I really like you, but ever since we met in that sociology class in coll... → Read More
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Monologue: Allow Me to Evade That Specific Policy Question With Sweeping Generalizations About America.
[Originally published October 15, 2012.] - - - What specific tax expenditures would I cut from the budget, since my proposals to make the budge... → Read More
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: I Have No Idea What This Thing Is, Is It Authentic and Made In Traditional Cultural Ways?
Ah, it’s so nice to be in a real market for once, outside of those sterile shopping malls with air conditioning and clearly marked aisles. I’m sim... → Read More
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: It’s Not You, It’s Quantitative Cost-Benefit Analysis.
[Originally published February 5, 2013.] - - - Susan, we need to talk. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately. About us. I really like you, b... → Read More
Goodbye, Employment: How Work Has Changed In The Modern University
An NCAA football player, a student intern, a university janitor, and a college lecturer – what do they all have in common? Besides the fact that they could all defeat me in any athletic competition, they also share something else: None of them are considered regular employees of the universities [...] → Read More
Student Loans Are A Drag On The Economy And Society
(This is part two of a five-part series on how we pay for college. Read part one here.) The shift from greater public funding of higher education to individuals financing their own education through debt has put more risk on individual students. But it also has potentially negative social and economic effects [...] → Read More
10) Capital One Bowl - 1/1/14 - Wisconsin vs South Carolina - In Photos: Top 10 Most Expensive College Bowl Games
Avg Price: $164, Get-in Price: $39Rounding out the Top 10 most expensive bowl games this season is the Capital One Bowl in Orlando on January 1st which has an Avg cost of $164 for Capital One Bowl tickets. This game will be between the #19 Wisconsin Badgers of the Big Ten and the #19 South Carolina Gamecocks of the SEC at the Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium. This is the third Capital One Bowl for both… → Read More
Subsidized Saturdays: The Tax-Free World Of College Football
In the coming weeks, the nation’s top college football teams will face off in the Bowl Championship Series, which is comprised of the National Championship game and four other regional match-ups. These games will draw millions of television viewers and turn four sunny cities into college football meccas. It is [...] → Read More
Are Universities Charities? Why The 'Nonprofit Sector' Needs To Go
‘Tis the season for giving to charity. But ‘tis also the season for giving to “charity” – organizations that we consider nonprofits but whose charitable nature is not quite so clear (see Dr. Evil, on the right). Take, for example, the world of higher education: should we consider wealthy private [...] → Read More
The Farce of Meritocracy: Why Legacy Admissions Might Actually Be A Good Thing
Current policies that give admissions preference to legacy applicants at elite universities are egregiously unfair and unmeritocratic. Yet legacy admissions might actually be the best thing that happened to elite higher ed from the point of view of social equality. → Read More
I Have a Ten-Part Question for Every Person on This Panel
Is this thing on? Hello? Hello? Can you hear me? I don’t think this is working. Can anyone here fix it? Hello? Ok. I just want to say that I found ... → Read More