Marshall Steinbaum

Why the left’s turn from higher education has coincided with a newfound conservative appreciation for it.

The economist systematically demolishes the conceit that extreme inequality is our destiny rather than our choice.

The hostile reaction to Binyamin Appelbaum's new book reveals the tensions within the economics profession over some of its most self-serving myths.

When college is a prerequisite for getting a job that pays better than minimum wage, we cannot stop until it is free and accessible to all.

The University of Virginia has long been a bastion of white supremacy and white supremacy–validating scholarship.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century raised important questions about inequality that the Ivory Tower would rather ignore.

Two new books argue that the student debt crisis is a media myth. But they ignore the exploitation of disadvantaged students by for-profit colleges.

Plutocracy, not global competition, harms the middle class.

Off-shoring, tax havens, and other scourges of globalization.