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It’s Time to Break Up the Ivy League Cartel Democracy requires something more than a handful of super-rich universities. Joan Wong for The Chronicle The Review May 28, 2021 Power in the U.S. flows through the gates of the Ivy League and a very small tier of other top universities. These institutions set and sanction the boundaries of knowledge, including what kinds of political and social views are welcomed in prestige cultural spaces. This has long been the case. In 1805, for example, Unitarianism won a real degree of respectability ...

Guest Commentary In an especially informative and troubling analysis, Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton (the latter a Nobel Prize recipient), state the United States has been suffering from an epidemic of “deaths of despair.” These fatalities are caused by drug overdose, alcoholic liver diseases and suicide. The increased mortality rate resulting from these deaths — starting in the mid 1990s — has been so pronounced that life expectancy at birth decreased in this country from 2015 to 2017, the first such decline since the influenza pandemic at the end of World War I in ...

A 30-year-old American is three times more likely to die at that age than his or her European peers. In fact, Americans do worse at just about every age. To make matters more grim, the American disadvantage is growing over time. In 2017, for example, higher American mortality translated into roughly 401,000 excess deaths – deaths that would not have occurred if the US had Europe’s lower age-specific death rates. Pre-pandemic, that 401,000 is...

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Why do Americans die earlier than Europeans? SamuelPrestonandYanaVierboom The ‘mortality penalty’ that the US pays every year is equivalent to the number of Americans who died of Covid in 2020 ‘In recent years, higher American mortality each year translates into roughly 401,000 excess deaths.’ Photograph: Bryan R Smith/AFP/Getty Images ‘In recent years, higher American mortality each year translates into roughly 401,000 excess deaths.’ Photograph: Bryan R Smith/AFP/Getty Images Tue 4 May 2021 06.30 EDT A 30-year-old American is three times more likely to die at that age than his o...