Something's wrong when the diploma is worth more than the education
by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
Mar 15, 2019
3 minutes
The college admissions scandal should be the populist issue of our time.
Most of the talk in our politics about how "the system is rigged" is incredibly abstract and symbolic. But this is infuriatingly concrete.
On Tuesday, the Justice Department revealed a massive effort by wealthy parents and a shady "admissions consultant" to bribe and cheat their way into getting kids into a slew of elite schools.
Prosecutors say William Singer, the ringleader of the operation, sold two
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