Exceptionalism in US Higher Education

This post is an op-ed I published on my birthday (May 17) in 2018 on the online international opinion site, Project Syndicate.  The original is hidden behind a paywall; here are PDFs in English, Spanish, and Arabic. It’s a brief essay on what is distinctive about the American system of higher education, drawn from my book, A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy …