A Brilliant Analysis of American Higher Education — from 1971
Print this article In 1971, Liberty Fund held a conference devoted to American higher education. The participants were all-stars in the conservative/libertarian movement of the day. Ben Rogge and Pierre Goodrich presented a paper for discussion, with comments by Gottfried Dietze, Russell Kirk, Henry Manne, and Stephen Tonsor. Eventually, Liberty Fund put the proceedings into a book entitled Education in a Free Society. Advertisement Professor Lee Trepanier of Samford University has just written a superb essay that looks back on that book entitled, “Does the American University De...