Networks of Trust: The Social Costs of College and What We Can Do about Them

An eye-opening look at how parents’ mistrust of colleges has less to do with what their kids are learning than with whom they come to trust.

Higher education is a familiar battlefield in today’s culture wars. The right accuses colleges and universities of indoctrinating conservative students with liberal values; the left, with failing to be sufficiently inclusive. The anxieties expressed on both sides of the political spectrum have much in common, however, and they are triggered not by col...