The Elite Overproduction Hypothesis

The Elite Overproduction Hypothesis

I usually do a “state of the nation” post on July 4th, but I was traveling to Japan today, and the wifi didn’t work on the plane, so I’ll have to do it tomorrow. In the meantime, I thought I’d repost a fun post that I wrote back in 2022, about how an excessive boom in higher education, coupled with a saturation in the markets for many humanities-based jobs, might have contributed to America’s era of unrest. Three years later, I think most of wha…