CONTEMPLATING HIGHER EDUCATION. Dan Drezner has a number of links. InstaPundit has been following a comparison of Harvard with General Motors at its most oblivious. Although there is potential for other institutions of higher learning to provide what Harvard has been failing to deliver, more difficult days are likely to precede that transition. Let me refresh your memory about a review of Killing Thinking, a book I am contemplating buying. The problem we face in the trenches is that until the people who run the universities, particularly at the mid-majors and the four-years, stop thinking about the diploma mills as the competition and mindlessly proffering "access" and "diversity" as higher goals, the positional arms race to get into the Harvards for fear of otherwise not being able to make any social connections as well as not learning anything will continue.