Ramesh Ponnuru Biography
- Title:
- Senior Editor for National Review Magazine
- Position:
- Con to the question "Is a College Education Worth It?"
- Reasoning:
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“It is absurd that people have to get college degrees to be considered for good jobs in hotel management or accounting — or journalism. It is inefficient, both because it wastes a lot of money and because it locks people who would have done good work out of some jobs. The tight connection between college degrees and economic success may be a nearly unquestioned part of our social order. Future generations may look back and shudder at the cruelty of it.”
“The Case against College Education,” time.com, Feb. 24, 2010
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Resident Fellow, University of Chicago Institute of Politics, Fall 2013
- Senior Editor, National Review Magazine
- Columnist, Bloomberg View
- Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
- Author, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Newsday, New York Post, First Things, The Weekly Standard, New Republic, and Reason
- Former Fellow, Institute of Economic Affairs, London
- Former Media Fellow, Hoover Institution at Stanford University
- Guest, CNN’s Inside Politics, NBC’s The McLaughlin Group, MSNBC’s Buchanan & Press and Donahue, CNBC’s Kudlow & Cramer, PBS’s The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, CSPAN’s Washington Journal, Comedy Central’s Politically Incorrect, FOX News, and NPR’s Morning Edition
- Education:
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- AB, summa cum laude, History, Princeton University
- Other:
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- His wife, April Ponnuru, is the Policy Director for the Young Guns Network and former Senior Advisor to US Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO).
- Quoted in:
- Pro & Con Quotes: Is a College Education Worth It?