ann arbor is overrated.

You may have noticed that we like to follow conservative media — when they’re wrong, they’re laughably wrong and when they’re right, they often say something new. The Michigan Review repays our interest in its latest issue. Yeah, there’s the predictable piece defending Larry Summers because boys are good at math and girls are good at language (that’s why English faculties at prestigious universities are so overwhelmingly female-dominated), but without the Review, we wouldn’t have found out about the slippery situation of Michigan physics classes using a private online program that stores students’ sensitive data on non-university servers. Writes Carrick Rogers, “Students are given a choice between suffering a penalty by not completing their coursework or providing personal and scholastic information to a third party that sets the terms of agreement. Pearson Education is therefore not answerable to the University of Michigan or its student body under any contract.” (That’s a bad thing, right? Even by free-market-libertarian standards?)