In response to my post yesterday about why it’s a bad idea for schools to pay kids to get good grades, a commenter named yeah man raised a great point. He wrote: If the social norms in place were working there would have been no need for this program in the first place. This morning [...]
I have a piece in this week’s magazine (Obama on the cover). It starts: Stuart Katz and Jeff Kovack met at Ohio State. They quickly hit it off. The pair joined the same fraternity, and after graduation, both moved to Baltimore, where they became roommates. Then a year ago in April, the 25-year-olds took the [...]
