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Harvard’s Bigger Problem Is Our Society’s Bigger Problem

In the context of a society that seems to have lost its moral anchor, cheating seems more like an existential threat to our country.
Harvard’s Bigger Problem Is Our Society’s Bigger Problem
People walk through the gate on Harvard Yard at the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass., on June 29, 2023. Scott Eisen/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Last summer, I wrote about “Harvard’s Big Problem”—the problem of having so many people want to attend the school that it causes endless complications for its admissions office. It is a “problem” that many struggling colleges wish they had.
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.