Michael Thaddeus is a math professor at Columbia. His father was a mathematician, and he has great affection for the species. One day not long ago, he hears something that doesn't seem right. He saw that Columbia had risen to number two in the US News rankings.
Consider this your invitation to the greatest award show no one’s ever heard of: the Pushkin Prizes, created to honor the giants of the American education system. This year, Malcolm is celebrating one prominent university that decided to play the US News & World Report at its own dirty rankings game—and smeared themselves in the process. Featuring an eagle-eyed math professor, our favorite data scientist, and the legend of one disgraced congressman.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.