To the Editor:
I’m puzzled by David Brooks’s concern that the “careerist tide” is drowning emotional, spiritual and moral education (“The Big University,” column, Oct. 6). Seriously?
Nearly all my students work one or two jobs to pay for school, leave college with significant debt, and enter a labor market in which the benefits of rising productivity have gone exclusively to the wealthiest. Yet conservatives oppose the very policies that would reduce student debt, make college affordable or increase their prospective wages.
To chastise universities’ focus on careers rather than humanities in the aftermath of decades of conservative policies that exacerbated inequality is disingenuous.
MARK K. CASSELL
Kent, Ohio
The writer is a professor of political science at Kent State University.
Note from KBJ: Yes, it's all the fault of conservatives. Who has been president for the past six and three-quarters years (and 14.75 of the past 22.75)?
