The NY Times reports that The Atlantic Monthly has just released their first college ranking, ranking the “50 most selective colleges in the nation.” It sounds like a very schizophrenic piece, in that it contains both a ranking of colleges and a number of articles questioning the validity of any such ranking. While I’ll reserve final judgement until I’ve read the issue, I’ve got to say that this strikes me as disingenuous. The addiction of the consumers of American education to these college rankings is well known. To offer such a ranking along with articles questioning its worth sounds like a drug pusher who also hands out pamphlets about the dangers of marijuana…