The National Review College Guide: America’s Top Liberal Arts Schools, edited by Charles J. Sykes and Brad Miner, introduction by William F. Buckley Jr. (Simon & Schuster, 270 pp., $13)
THE chances of finding out what kind of education any particular college supplies—by studying its catalogues or promotional videos, by taking a guided tour, or by consulting a standard college guide—are about as good as the CIA’s chances of estimating the size of the Soviet economy were when it attempted todosoby studying its published statistics. In both cases the institution in question is one with much to hide. Colleges, for their part, wish to keep secret that they no longer take responsibility for exposing students to the thought and achievements of the past.
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