Deadly Pleasures to Read and Watch

The Wall Street Journal has just released its annual list of best colleges, and the rankings are a bit different than last year’s. Little-known Babson College, which was No. 126 in 2022, now ranks second, sandwiched between Princeton and Stanford. The reason? The Journal’s metrics are now weighted more heavily toward post-college employment rates and salary impact.

Janice Hallett captures this shift in higher education with deadly acuity in The Examiner, in which a desperate art professor creates a new course in multi-media art “designed to bridge the gap between creative-arts education and the workplace.” She’s just trying to survive, but at what cost?