The great college swindle, Silicon Valley and the end of the American Dream, and Modestinus reads Pope Francis’ latest

• From LRC: Credential inflation and higher education.
• From Rod Dreher: Silicon Valley and the end of the American Dream. Or it’s not greed when the cool kids do it. Reminds me of one of Steve Sailer’s points, that conservatives naturally put kin first while liberals buy abstractions about loving humanity, other cultures, etc., while actually treating people, their kin, like dirt.
• Modestinus on Evangelii Gaudium. Might this relate to what Dreher wrote and quoted above?
• From the Anti-Gnostic: So many things high-profile women do strike me as just elaborate personal ads. ... Feminism is really only oriented to women in the upper tiers of intelligence and attractiveness. I hear you but what about the fact which Roissy and others have noted that many/most feminists are envious ugly girls? Feminists don't mention, for example, that the realistic job option for most women is customer service for Team Sterling, or stuffing mail-order boxes for Team Sterling. (Women hate working for women, by the way.) Bob Wallace: Feminism is about well-to-do feminist women throwing lesser-paid women under the bus.