Author: Matt Bartel

  • Paul Krugman

    New York Times columnist and Princeton economist Paul Krugman could have chosen a better title for his new book than The Conscience of a Liberal, which he cribbed from the late Senator Paul Wellstone. (Wellstone himself was riffing off Barry Goldwater’s 1964 book, The Conscience of a Conservative.)Krugman’s book is less a manifesto of liberal…

  • Class Dismissed

    As clichéd as the word “community” has become at Breck, I still have to admit that it’s accurate. There is a degree of trust and mutual respect among students that separates Breck from larger schools where you’re lucky if you’re able to recognize everyone in your class let alone name them. The comfortable environment makes…