The College Fix

Articles by Zach Wahls

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• Reducing the deficit is a lot like losing weight: Simple, but not easy

  Zach Wahls •April 7, 2011

  Three simple rules for losing weight. Three simple rules for reducing the deficit. We're still going to have a shutdown, though!

• Net Neutrality advocates are their own worst enemies

  Zach Wahls •January 31, 2011

  The blackout in Egypt is the most visceral example of why supposed Net Neutrality is incredibly dangerous.

• An accidentally post-partisan State of the Union

  Zach Wahls •January 26, 2011

  When Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight described President Obama’s State of the Union address as, “smart, safe, centrist, vague, and optimistic” on Twitter, I thought he might have been joking. All State of the Union speeches are smart, safe, centrist, vague, and optimistic.

• Higher ed in America: The sky is not falling

  Zach Wahls •January 24, 2011

  Though American education has its shortcomings, and plenty of them, it’s still the best in the world. For now.

• A dose of political sanity from Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson

  Zach Wahls •November 15, 2010

  Nobody said this was going to be easy. Nobody. The United States national debt is $13.7 trillion and counting. Counting rapidly.

• Planes, trains, buses and government waste

  Zach Wahls •November 3, 2010

  It’s not “21st-century innovation” or “American ingenuity.” It’s political groupthink.