I think it should be noted in advance that The Federalist is a right-wing extremist rag that peddles conspiracy theories, and that earnestly discussing things p

I think it should be noted in advance that The Federalist is a right-wing extremist rag that peddles conspiracy theories, and that earnestly discussing things published there is unlikely to be productive. Seriously, spend any amount of time reading about who they are and what they do. Degrees look less useless if you think of them as socializing teens into an adulthood of interpreting experiences informed by new information. It shouldn't be a huge mystery why non-vocational college campuses lean toward the political left and why the federalist wants to tear that apart. Of course it would be nice to have a collective recognition that most careers don't require any education at all, but the schools aren't the ones to address that. Trades require trade school anyway.