Megan McArdle, Columnist

How Prickly Partisans Battle Toward the Truth

The right's reflex to argue with the left is helpful, and vice versa.

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College tuition has gone up and up, and there are two popular explanations. But they aren't equally scrutinized. Liberals really want to believe one of them and disprove the other.

A very good essay by Jason Delisle discusses the hypotheses and faults the liberal media for accepting one too eagerly and critiquing only the conservative idea. He's onto something.