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• Are Cooper Union’s finances fixable?

  
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  James Stewart has an important column on Cooper Union today: if you read it carefully, it hints at how much further Cooper might yet fall from its founding mission of providing free education. Cooper’s trustees are press-shy these days, but Stewart snagged an on-the-record interview with one of the most important ...
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• This Is Corrupt

  
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  It may not be enough for a review of his tenure, but the fact that, "Senior associate dean for executive programs and a professor in the practice of management at the Yale School of Management," Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is calling criticism of JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon a witch hunt without revealing that he was a paid ...
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• Department of "Huh!?": George Borjas Says Richard Zeckhauser Chaired Jason Richwines Thesis Committee?

  
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  Jennifer Rubin: What the anti-immigrant movement really believes : I received the following e-mail attack from Borjas, who, keep in mind, is a Harvard professor: Someone copied me on an email that contained your column trashing Jason Richwine’s dissertation work, and along the way you decided to trash ...
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• Is Leftist School Indoctrination Unstoppable?

  
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  From Bruce Thornton, at FrontPage Magazine : Rush Limbaugh weighed in recently on the Republicans’ on-going debate about what went wrong in November. Elaborating on his earlier comment that he was “ashamed of America,” Limbaugh said, “The Left has beaten us. They have created far more low-information, ...
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• Mind the Masses: A Hobart and William Smith Student Collaboration

  
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  Very proud of the students in my seminar on crowd theory. Theyve compiled their research papers into a book. The chapters span from critical discussions of early crowd theory, investigations into contemporary networked crowds, crowds and urban space, crowd theory and affect theory, and the continuing importance of ...
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• Robert Oscar Lopez Attends Schools for Subversion at Luxe Hotel in Los Angeles

  
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  I mentioned that the event Monday night featured a rousing question and answer session. One animated participant was Professor Robert Oscar Lopez of California State University, Northridge . He mentioned that hed been granted tenure, despite the stifling leftist political correctness on campus. Hes apparently unable ...
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• Econ PhD Musings

  
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  Holder of a more recent vintage economics PhD than me, Noah Smith says " If you get a PhD, get an economics PhD ".  His foremost reason is that job market conditions are much better for economics PhDs than in most other fields.  Its definitely worth a read if youre considering grad school, though I have some ...
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• Back From Schools for Subversion

  
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  Heres the announcement, " Schools for Subversion: How Public Education Lays the Foundation for University Radicalism ." I had a wonderful time meeting and listening to Professor Mary Grabar at tonights event. I didnt take a lot of picture nor a lot of notes. I enjoyed all the speakers. And the panel was well ...
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• Of the Transcontinental Railroad, Rural Electrification, and Sodomy

  
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  Personally, I don’t think any of the topics is suitable for a college commencement address, but then I’m not President of the United States of America: The country’s founders, [Obama] claimed, “left us the keys to a system of self-government, the tools to do big things and important things together that we ...
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• Niall Ferguson Apologizes for Tactless and Stupid Remarks About John Maynard Keynes

  
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  On Twitter: I apologize deeply and unreservedly for stupid and tactless remarks about Keynes that I made on Thursday bit.ly/13cZ6B7 — Niall Ferguson (@nfergus) May 4, 2013 Well, mob justice was swift. With luck hell be able to hang onto his position at Harvard, although the Lawrence Summers precedent isnt ...
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• Donald Kagan May Have Had His Say...

  
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  Matthew Kaminski: The Weekend Interview with Donald Kagan: Democracy May Have Had Its Day : Donald Kagan is engaging in one last argument. For his "farewell lecture" here at Yale on Thursday afternoon, the 80-year-old scholar of ancient Greece—whose four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War inspired ...
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• Harvards Niall Ferguson Slams Famed Economist John Maynard Keynes: A Homosexual Married to a Ballerina

  
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  Oh boy, this is too juicy! At Financial Advisor Magazine, " Harvard Professor Trashes Keynes For Homosexuality ": Harvard Professor and author Niall Ferguson says John Maynard Keynes economic philosophy was flawed and he didnt care about future generations because he was gay and didnt have children. Speaking at ...
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• The tragedy of Cooper Union

  
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  This time last year, I wrote about the pressure that public companies face to grow at all costs, and how destructive that pressure can be. Growth is, weirdly, inimical to longevity: if you want something to last for a very, very long time, then what you really want to create is something large — but not huge — ...
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• Highlighted for Today: Mark Thoma and Stephanie Kelton on Weblogging and Standard Ivy-Covered Academia: Kauffman Foundation 2013 Economic Webloggers Forum (Highlighted for April 25, 2013)

  
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  http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/04/weblogging-and-standard-ivy-covered-academia-kauffman-foundation-2013-economic-webloggers-forum.html Panel discussion – Economic and Financial Weblogging and Standard Ivy-Covered Academia (Speaker: Mark Thoma; Discussant Stephanie Kelton; Moderator: Bob Strom)
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• That would be an ecumenical matter

  
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  Small personal update. I’ve just spent two days on a bid-writing retreat, organised to support people working in Humanities departments at my university – criminologists (like me), sociologists, linguists, historians, geographers and a lawyer or two. ‘Retreat’ was the operative word – it was a very quiet two ...
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• It’s time to air Cooper Union’s dirty laundry

  
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  If you want to really understand the importance of Cooper Union and its century-long tradition of free tuition, I can’t recommend Sangamithra Iyer’s excellent article in n+1 highly enough. And it contrasts greatly, of course, with the official statement from Cooper Union’s Board of Trustees, saying that the ...
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• Is There Really No Kindle Version of Either Alasdair Macintyres "After Virtue" or His "A Short History of Ethics"?

  
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• Public Intellectualism in Comparative Context: Different Countries, Different Disciplines

  
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  Public Intellectualism in Comparative Context: Different Countries, Different Disciplines Schedule Participate in "Public Intellectualism" Conference Sessions Remotely // News // Advanced Study // University of Notre Dame : If you are unable to attend the "Public Intellectualism" conference this Monday ...
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• The Dead Poets Society redux

  
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  I know I shouldn’t be feeling so down. For better or for worse, I am graduating tomorrow from Medicine. Three years of challenging study, a year of hell, and I am at the precipice of graduation. All I am feeling, however, is relief. It’s not really even happiness: I’ve never had something akin to love [...]
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