Santorum’s War on Satan, Err, on Higher Education

Santorum’s War on Satan, Err, on Higher Education

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Even as he and Mitt Romney battle for the Republican presidential nomination, Rick Santorum is making just as many headlines for calling President Obama a “snob” recently. The basis for the insult was, perhaps, more surprising than the insult itself; the president, he claims, “wants everybody in america to go to college.”

But if we look more deeply into Santorum’s worldview, this attack on higher education is a natural outgrowth of a religious narrative that’s even more troubling than it first appears for anyone who cares about the future of higher education in America.