This is the season of generational twaddle. At graduation ceremonies across the country, politicians, authors, actors, and businessmen take to the stage to tell young people they are fantastic simply because they are young. This year, the ritual is more pathetic than usual because there’s a presidential election in the offing.

The time is coming for Romney to get angry, very angry, with what is increasingly, quaintly called "the mainstream media."

Imbued with a sense of victimhood, entitlement, and cultivated grievance that can only be taught, today's college students respond to inconvenience with temper tantrums.

Twenty-five top college students will travel to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, D.C. this June to participate in the 2012 American Enterprise Summer Institute. 

The dramatic rise in college tuition costs is due to the ways in which they organize and allocate resources--not lavish university facilities and extra student services. The real levers for increasing efficiency include rethinking student-faculty ratios, eliminating under-enrolled programs, and trimming unnecessary administrative positions.

Doing a better job of providing accessible, high-quality training, and helping students identify those programs, may not garner the headlines of a new research lab or football stadium, but it's a whole lot more likely to make a difference for workers and communities across the land.

Vance Fried explains what decision makers should know to rein in the cost of collage

Before World War II, academically excellent students from families unable to afford college for them could apply for scholarships available to outstanding students, but scholarships were scarce. The federal government itself did not then make direct grants to individual high school students to enable them to attend college, as it does now.