Claudia Dreifus
Claudia Dreifus has been a magazine journalist and political interviewer for almost all of her adult life. In addition to being a contributing writer for the "Science Times" section of The New York Times and a regular interviewer for Playboy and The Progressive, Dreifus is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute of the New School for Social Research. She is the author of Interview. She lives in New York City.
"She charms, she razzes...she asks obvious questions that often yield fascinating answers" —The Progressive
For more information about Claudia Dreifus:
News
The Nation: “The Supreme Court and the Church: A Conversation With Frances Kissling” by Claudia Dreifus
CNN Opinion: “I almost died trying to get an abortion. I’m terrified my students could face a similar fate” by Claudia Dreifus
Books
Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids---and What We Can Do About It
What's gone wrong at our colleges and universities—and how to get American higher education back on track?
A quarter of a million dollars. It's the going tab for four years at most top-tier universities. Why does it cost so much and is it worth it?
Renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker and New York Times writer Claudia Dreifus make an incisive case that the American way of higher education, now a $420 billion-per-year business, has lost sight of its primary mission: the education of young adults. Going behind the myths and mantras, they probe the true performance of the Ivy League, the baleful influence of tenure, an unhealthy reliance on part-time teachers, and the supersized bureaucracies which now have a life of their own.
As Hacker and Dreifus call for a thorough overhaul of a self-indulgent system, they take readers on a road trip from Princeton to Evergreen State to Florida Gulf Coast University, revealing those faculties and institutions that are getting it right and proving that teaching and learning can be achieved—and at a much more reasonable price.
(Times Books, August 2010)