My brother, the health-care policy wonk
Time to kvell: my brother Stan Dorn is currently a staff member at the Urban Institute, the latest step in a long career in health policy. Yesterday, he went toe-to-toe with Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former Congressional Budget Office director, and Dennis Kneale, apparently one of the designated Yelling Heads at CNBC who asserted that 20,000 dead […]
Clemson, prestige, and reputation
Despite its attempt to claw back from an unintentional statement of truth, Clemson’s apparent manipulation/gaming of the U.S. News rankings system should give people one more reason to read Brewer, Gates, and Goldman’s In Pursuit of Prestige (library copies), about the difference between colleges and universities that try to move up the rankings, on the […]