Anti-Climacus

As a general rule, I try not to agree with Matt Yglesias about anything. I've been blogging for a long time: it's an old habit: it dies hard. But he's right about Kay Hymowitz's argument that women going to college is a problem because educated women are unwilling to compromise by marrying less-well-educated men. He quotes, but does not comment on, the following:

The economist Greg Mankiw has quipped that “Harvard is probably the world’s most elite dating agency.” A glance at the New York Times nuptial pages suggests he’s right.

I am very definitely not a sociologist, so consider this a non-professional opinion, but if I were looking to see what modern American marriages are like, the NYT is not the first place I'd look. Put the other way: couples in which both spouses went to Harvard are exactly what I'd expect to find in the NYT weddings section--but their presence doesn't say anything useful about what the rest of the population is like.