Jay-Z has been playing shows on his latest tour for less than a week, and it’s already the highest-grossing tour of his solo career.
Contrary to popular advice—from books, films, and your worried mother alike—the liberal arts are quite a secure choice when it comes to beginning a successful career.
The local community college gets a bad rep in America. While the most elite of four-year institutions boast graduation rates of 90% or above, community colleges can’t even get a quarter of students to complete their degrees—or so everyone had thought.
Music can be an equalizing force; music concerts, much less so. Fans have griped for decades about the high prices of live concert fees—especially with the additional troubles piled on by ticket scalping—but a new analysis shows just how unfair the price tags can be.
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“Something is wrong” with America, says JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, referring to its enormous pile of student debt. Economists and educators agree. Novelist John Grisham, whose bestselling thrillers grace the shelves of bookstores, convenience stores, and airports all over, thinks so as well—to the point of having written his latest book about it.
Vinyl records won’t stop breaking records. Physical LPs—in spite of all the times they’ve been predicted to die since they were first popularized in the 1950s—have more than survived the music-streaming boom, so much that their sales are actually helping bolster the troubled music business at large.
College freshmen in America these days are laden with more than hefty textbooks and course catalogs—for the cost of a degree continues to rise, according to a pair of College Board reports released yesterday.
Few people have heard of Lauv, Russell Dickerson, Kim Petras, or Trippie Red. In a couple of months, everyone will.
Spotify has around 140 million active users. Apple Music, about 30 million.
“I done make the hot chart,” 21 Savage boasts on the guest verse of Post Malone’s “rockstar”—a smooth three-and-a-half minute track that, since its release on Sept. 15, has indeed rocketed up the charts to number one on Billboard’s Top 100.
Ann Coulter, Ben Shapiro, Richard Spencer, Charles Murray, Betsy DeVos, Milo Yiannopoulos. The list of controversial, provocative, or politically divisive guest speakers on college campuses is long and growing. Often, they don’t even get to speak: colleges rescind invitations, or the crowds refuse to let them get a word out. Two speakers were shouted down by student protesters at different universities just this week.
Coding, says Apple CEO Tim Cook, is the best foreign language that a student in any country can learn.
Think of any teen movie out of the 1980s or 1990s, and there’s a fair chance you can recall a scene of characters lounging in a car, singing along to the blare of a dashboard radio. If not driving, they’re listening to radio while sitting around a breakfast table, or doing homework, or gathering at friends’ parties, those trusty AM/FM waves forever crooning on in the background.
It’s every parent’s delirious hallucination: free money for college, simply dropping into their laps. Yet not enough of them realize that fantasy can actually come true.
In theory, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame—updated on an annual basis, and refreshed this week with a list of new nominees—recognizes the most influential artists in the history of Western popular music. But that nomination process is somewhat arbitrary, beholden to an “international voting body of more than 900” as well as results from an online fan vote.
As of this fall, Harvard’s first-year class comprises—for the first time in history—a majority non-white population. Diversity-championing activists were thrilled at the news. But, it seems, the federal government was not.
Did you major in underwater basket weaving? That old joke about some college majors being far too niche to ever prove useful is not quite as ridiculous as it once seemed.
Few things are both as dreadfully necessary and blisteringly expensive as a college degree in America—once an idle pastime of the privileged elite, now one of the most important entry points into the modern workforce.
With new seasons come renewed promises: We will live more consciously. We will take better care of ourselves. We will read many, many more books.
Spoiler: The Earth is not flat, as evidenced by centuries of careful scientific scrutiny.
This is the last in The Vanishing University, a four-part series exploring the tech-driven future of higher education in America. Here are parts one, two, and three.
Steely Dan’s 69-year-old Donald Fagan has to go back on tour. Luis Fonzi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito” may have lost out on millions. Liam Gallagher can’t afford people to make his “fucking tea.”
Twenty minutes: the time it took for Milo Yiannopoulos to be in and out, posing for selfies while sporting sunglasses and wrapped in an American flag, at the University of California-Berkeley this weekend.
