This week, I interview Charles Murray, famous author and social commentator on American education.  We discuss two of Charles’s recent publications, his article, “College Daze” and his book Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality.  In both publications, Charles concludes that college is no longer a place where students learn responsibility and maturity.  He argues further that a Bachelor of Arts degree is now largely meaningless and does not gauge an individual’s ability to compete in the workplace.

I also discuss the unintended and often destructive consequences of excess government regulation by examining how federal laws, meant to protect horses, have actually led to a surplus of unwanted animals now starving on public lands.  I revisit the current search for a Pittsburgh Hill District grocery store and discuss my op-ed in Sunday’s Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, “Lazarus’ on the Hill?“

 

 August 30-31, 2008 – Glen Meakem on education and excess government regulation: Play Now | Play in Popup