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Revisiting the Canon Wars: Two decades after Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, it’s generally agreed that his multiculturalist opponents won the canon wars. Why are we here? Colleges ignore life's biggest questions, and we all pay the price. Master’s degrees abound as universities and students see a windfall: More students than ever have started master’s programs this fall, and universities are seeing those programs as potentially lucrative sources of revenue. Dueling Trend Stories: The Wall Street Journal vs. The New York Times on the value of an MBA. Michael Kinsley on the Wacky World of Student Loans: How banks rip off college students and the government. Rip-Offs 101: The prices of college textbooks are ridiculous. But solving the problem is more complicated than students think.