The WSJ comments on the ouster of University of Pennsylvania President, plus a letter from billionaire Harvard donor Bill Ackman and some interesting Tweets. 
Intense Rot at Major US Universities
Earlier today I commented Intense Rot at Major US Universities Finally Exposed, Please Stop Your Donations
Things blew up at the University of Pennsylvania last week over antisemitic remarks. UofP president Liz Magill resigned. Harvard should be next, but the rot is pervasive everywhere.
Depends on the Context
At the congressional testimony, Harvard University President Claudine Gay said that it “depends on context” whether or not “calling for the genocide of Jews” violates the university’s harassment policy.
In the wake of those major gaffes, major supporters threatened to halt donations.
It was only the threat of donor cancellations that mattered, not the idiotic statements themselves.
If you are donating to colleges and universities, you are fostering the problem. Please stop.
My article prompted some silly comments on my blog and even sillier comments on Twitter.
Here is Ackman’s Tweet
It’s a long Tweet but please read it all.
How Rich Alumni Ousted Penn’s President Liz Magill
Just after I made the Tweet exchange in the above image, the Wall Street Journal posted How Rich Alumni Ousted Penn’s President Liz Magill emphasis mine with occasional comments in [ ] brackets.
That is free link. I try not to abuse the privilege, so I seldom use them. But that is one I encourage you to read. Here are some snips from an even longer article.
At Penn, the university’s response to the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel was the final straw for a largely Jewish group of prominent alumni who felt the school wasn’t adequately protecting Jewish students. They campaigned both behind the scenes and publicly for the president and chairman to step down, threatening to withhold millions of dollars if the leadership stayed in place. They borrowed a playbook from the business world, approaching the typically genteel world of higher education like activist investors.
It worked. The development marked a stunning turn in a prolonged power struggle at the Philadelphia Ivy League school. Since September, marquee donors have huddled in dozens of private meetings, exchanged scores of letters and taken to the airwaves in efforts to combat antisemitism on campus and, eventually, to force a leadership change.
Earlier Flashpoints
Magill, a North Dakota native and constitutional law scholar who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and worked at Stanford University and the University of Virginia, took over as Penn’s president in July 2022. Like other universities across the country, Penn was mired in debate over hot-button issues regarding race, gender and free speech.
In 2018, Penn Law Professor Amy Wax spoke out against race-based affirmative action and immigration, leading to a formal complaint and investigation. [No freedom of speech there.]
In 2022, after transgender swimmer Lia Thomas switched from the men’s varsity team to the women’s team and won the NCAA 500-yard freestyle race, the school nominated her for NCAA female athlete of the year. [pure idiocy]
The beginning of the end for Magill came this summer, when advertisements went out for the Palestine Writes Literature Festival, billed as a celebration of Palestinian writers and artists and set to take place on Penn’s campus with backing from some Penn programs.
Cosmetics tycoon Ronald Lauder, who has a university degree program named after him and is president of the World Jewish Congress, visited Philadelphia to relay his concerns to Magill about speakers at the event espousing antisemitic views. In two follow-up calls, he urged her to cancel the festival.
Marc Rowan, the CEO of Apollo Global Management who had given Wharton more than $50 million over the years, helped organize an open letter expressing concerns about the festival’s content. Rowan left the Penn board earlier this year when he became chair of the UJA-Federation of New York, a Jewish philanthropy, but remained chair of Wharton’s board of advisers.
Investor Ross Stevens and a few current and former trustees signed on to the letter. Eventually, more than 4,000 others signed it, too. Top school officials released a statement condemning antisemitism ahead of the festival, but allowed it to proceed.
On Oct. 7, Hamas attacked Israel.
Three days later, Magill released a statement that called the deadly assault “horrific” but didn’t explicitly condemn Hamas as a terrorist organization.
Rowan came out swinging, calling the statement inadequate and urging Bok and Magill to step down. Julie Platt, then vice chair of the board of trustees, publicly backed the leaders.
Rowan then headed to the CNBC studios, where he again called for Bok and Magill to be fired.
“Microaggressions are condemned with extreme moral outrage and yet violence, particularly violence against Jews, antisemitism, seems to have found a place of tolerance on the campus,” Rowan said on the air.
Other big donors also promised to close their checkbooks to Penn, including diplomat Jon Huntsman Jr., TV producer Dick Wolf, and Lauder. Smaller donors also were getting angry, sending voluminous emails to Rowan, Magill and members of the press.
A group of Penn staffers received emails that threatened violence against members of the Jewish community, which the school said was reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a potential hate crime.
Wharton’s board of advisers started taking a more activist role in the drama in mid-November. The group’s membership includes top executives at Blackstone, McKinsey & Co., Moelis & Co.and Related Cos. Some of its members also serve on the main board of trustees.
The Hearing
Last Tuesday, one trustee watched the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing in the morning, then turned back to work in earnest when, after four hours of testimony, the committee recessed to take some House votes. It seemed the event was done for the day.
The fireworks hadn’t even started.
Rep. Elise Stefanik, a high-ranking Republican from New York, directed a seemingly simple question to all three presidents who testified that day—Claudine Gay of Harvard University, Sally Kornbluth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Magill. Each gave a similar answer.
“Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn’s rules or code of conduct?” Stefanik asked.
“If the speech turns into conduct it can be harassment, yes,” Magill responded.
“I am asking, specifically, calling for the genocide of Jews, does that constitute bullying or harassment?” Stefanik countered.
“If it is directed or severe and pervasive, it is harassment.”
“So the answer is yes?” Stefanik asked.
“It is a context-dependent decision, Congresswoman,” Magill said.
“It’s a context-dependent decision?” Stefanik said. “That’s your testimony today, calling for the genocide of Jews is dependent upon the context? That is not bullying or harassment? This is the easiest question to answer yes, Ms. Magill.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, condemned Magill’s testimony as “absolutely shameful” and accused the school of a failure of leadership. He urged the board of trustees—on which he sits as a nonvoting member—to meet soon to discuss her future at the institution.
Wharton’s board again wrote to university trustees on Friday. Also that day, 74 members of Congress signed onto a letter calling for the trustees, as well as the governing boards at Harvard and MIT, to oust their presidents.
The University of Pennsylvania did, Harvard didn’t. With that, I repeat some comments from my article.
Free Speech Hoot of the Day
These universities create “safe zones” for speech they endorse, and hound anyone who doesn’t agree.
Until now, it was OK, on grounds of free speech to call for genocide of Jews. It was only harassment if you actually killed Jews.
But heaven forbid you call someone by the wrong pronoun. That’s harassment and freedom of speech stops there.
Using the Wrong Pronoun at Harvard
The following article was originally published by Campus Reform Oct. 4, 2022. It was republished in light of congressional testimony by Harvard University President Claudine Gay.
Campus Reform reports Students caught using wrong pronouns at Harvard may violate harassment policies republished December 7, 2023.
Students at Harvard University were told that failing to use a person’s preferred pronouns could be a violation of the university’s sexual misconduct and harassment policies during a mandatory online Title IX training last month.
The Power and Control Wheel [my lead image] clarifies that using the wrong pronouns constitutes abuse and is an “attempt to limit a person’s sense of self based on identity.”
Power and Control Indeed
By the power of intimidation and indoctrination, it’s extremely difficult to find freedom of speech at any major US college or university.
The DEI Scheme
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) does not include whites, Jews, and even Asians who score too high on entrance exams.
Universities, with Harvard at the head of the pack, routinely exclude whites and Asians unless of course there is a donation made under the table or you are a friend of the President.
DEI does include racist ideas like “Black Lives Matter” which in “context” really means “Only Black Lives Matter”.
If you disagree, then tell me what happens to professors who state “All Lives Matter”.
DEI also includes slave reparations.
Supreme Court Rules Against Harvard
In October of 2022, in Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard and University of North Carolina the Supreme Court found Harvard College’s admissions system does not comply with the principles of the equal protection clause embodied in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
Held: Harvard’s and UNC’s admissions programs violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Court rejects UNC’s argument that SFFA lacks standing because it is not a “genuine” membership organization.
Amazing DEI Irony
In the name of DEI, Harvard is guilty of violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
And the Harvard says it will continue to do so! Please consider Harvard’s Statement on the Supreme Court Ruling.
Harvard must always be a place of opportunity, a place whose doors remain open to those to whom they had long been closed, a place where many will have the chance to live dreams their parents or grandparents could not have dreamed.
In the weeks and months ahead, drawing on the talent and expertise of our Harvard community, we will determine how to preserve, consistent with the Court’s new precedent, our essential values.
To our students, faculty, staff, researchers, and alumni—past, present, and future—who call Harvard your home, please know that you are, and always will be, Harvard. Your remarkable contributions to our community and the world drive Harvard’s distinction. Nothing today has changed that.
Nothing Has Changed
Harvard has vowed to continue violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
To do so, it will create a new admission process that is even less transparent making it harder to challenge.
Harvard won’t be alone.
In the name of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), violations of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment will continue.
Slave Reparations and the E in DEI, Equity
March 17, 2023: San Francisco Board Unanimously Supports $5 Million Per Person Reparation Payments
I calculated the price tag. The price is $192,733,200,000 from people who never owned slaves to people who never were slaves in a state that never had slaves.
If that’s not an equitable solution, what is? Of course, equity needs to be at the national level. Thus …
March 30, 2023: More Biden Madness: Ask People on Census if They Are Slave Descendants
In a proposed update to how the government tracks Americans’ race and ethnicity, the Biden administration is asking the public for input on how it might go about differentiating Black people who are descendants of slaves in America.
Just Stop
I have never given a penny to higher education and won’t. I have made small donations to the high school I graduated from.
If you are donating to colleges and universities, you are fostering the problem. Please stop.
We need a complete turnover of the presidents and boards at these universities.
This post is not an endorsement for everything Israel does. These are two distinct issues.
There Is No Safe Place in Gaza, But No Place for Palestinians to Go
For discussion of the broader issues, please see my December 5 post There Is No Safe Place in Gaza, But No Place for Palestinians to Go
Addendum
In response to my posts one of my readers commented “Ackman and Mish too Zionist to see straight……”
What a f*g hoot.
I have called for all aid to Israel to be stopped and for a two-state solution, condemning Trump’s extremely one-sided proposal. I do not at all endorse US support for everything Israel does.
US meddling in Ukraine, Israel, Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya has made a genuine mess everywhere.
But no matter who you are or what side you are on, failure to condemn Hamas is beyond ignorant.
Addendum II
First Amendment Limits: Fighting Words, Hostile Audiences, and True Threats
Believe it or not, the First Amendment does not protect all types of speech.
In Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, the Court unanimously sustained a conviction under a statute proscribing any offensive, derisive or annoying word addressed to any person in a public place under the state court’s interpretation of the statute as being limited to fighting words—i.e., to words that have a direct tendency to cause acts of violence by the person to whom, individually, the remark is addressed.
In Beauharnais v. Illinois, relying on dicta in past cases, the Court upheld a state group libel law that made it unlawful to defame a race or class of people. The defendant had been convicted under this statute after he had distributed a leaflet, part of which was in the form of a petition to his city government, taking a hard-line white supremacy position, and calling for action to keep African Americans out of white neighborhoods.
Correction
I inadvertently said Penn State instead of University of Pennsylvania in two places. Apologies to Penn State,
“Ackman and mish too Zionist to see straight……”
What a f*****g hoot.
I have called for all aid to Israel to be stopped and for a two-state solution, condemning Trump’s one sided proposal.
Apology from Lynwood and Casual Observer expected.
What did I say? I just said it’s easier to go after public institutions. The Ivies have more money than they know what to do with and very little of it is public.
The majority of our Universities have become a cancer to the U.S. and our Freedoms. There are a few good Eggs! …seek them out. Thank you Mish!! This leads basic freedoms and it does and will drastically affect our economic way of life… We wake up and start fighting this or all is lost… Keep up the great work!!!
Harvard should hire Ben Sasse away from the University of Florida.
I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere that the US intelligence world recruits almost exclusively from the Ivy leagues and that probably explains much of their failure the past decades.
I’m not very well versed on the topic but I thought I would mention it.
Many of my Chinese intellectual friends have been saying that the language being used reminds them of the language used at the beginning to describe the Chinese cultural revolution and its legitimacy.
Don’t forget the changing of definitions, the abuse of government agencies changing laws, and the conspiracy between most of the legacy media and online social media.
“E in DEI, Equity”
Equity is a Marxist lie. The students at Harvard do not have equity with the president of Harvard. The titled president and the titled professors are superior to the students. The public does not have equity with the political and government class. By the law, they are held as superior to the public. Barbara Boxer became upset at someone testifying, when he didn’t call her, Senator. Yet if asked, Boxer would likely say she supports equity.
Another Israei hoax uncovered.
https://sonar21.com/israels-war-crimes/
How Penn’s President Liz Magills own words, handed over her job:
So Liz chose this hill to draw battle on? At Penn, a largely Jewish group of prominent alumni, whom promptly campaigned both behind the scenes and publicly for the president and chairman to step down.
Let me guess that Liz, and the College, never saw it coming. She is so asleep in her warped view of civilization, that supporting the annihilation of a Race was apparently simply normal behavior to Her.
If this is what is referred to, and seen and rewarded as “Higher Education” then “Community Colleges” look better than ever, as a far better choice for education. You will learn to live within and love those within your Community. ALL OF THEM!!!
Good for the marquee donors, who since September have huddled in dozens of private meetings, exchanged scores of letters and taken to the airwaves in efforts to combat antisemitism on campus and, eventually, to force a leadership change.
Penn has been mired in debate over hot-button issues regarding race, gender and free speech, for a long time. Maybe this will help change things. Maybe they can Learn from the errors of their ways, but then again, by the looks of this place, it’s probably not salvageable as a place of Learning…
At the congressional testimony, Harvard University President Claudine Gay said that it “depends on context” whether or not “calling for the genocide of Jews” violates the university’s harassment policy.
Typical Marxist propaganda.
Ron Unz has a long and excellent article tracing through some of the history and shenanigans in the Israel Palestinian conflict. It has an audio version attached. It’s one giant red pill for those interested in a more informed perspective than the lopsided coverage of the MSM.
https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-nakba-and-the-holocaust/
Rich alumni have their own motives. Ackman is a prolific political contributor – almost all to Democrats. Marc Rowan is more than prolific, but his contributions all seem to go to incumbents of both parties – people who can be helpful to Apollo Capital Management where he is CEO. Rowan, in particular, is no angel. Apollo has been characterized as the “apex predator” of Wall Street. His rise to billionaire status was due to his partnership in Apollo with Leon Black and Josh Harris (who also sits on the board of Wharton School). All three worked for Michael Milken back in the days of the collapse of Drexel Burnham Lambert and the Executive Life Insurance Company. The three Apollo partners made their initial fortunes by exploiting their inside knowledge of ELIC at the expense of the annuitants of that company. The old saying about great fortunes applies here. Billionaires will not be our salvation.
Get cancelled by the woke who pay your tuition today or defunded by the generous alumni – who can be generous largely because they embrace capitalism.
It’s a tightrope for a university leader.
” who can be generous largely because they embrace capitalism…”
ROTFL……
An undifferentiated gaggle of nothing but middlebrows; who never made a dime from any other source than pure handouts of wealth stolen from more competent people by The Fed; supposedly “embracing”, of all things, “Capitalism….”
I suppose even the rankest of idiots are entitled to their own invariably idiotic and muddleheaded definition of “capitalism”. But man, talk about stretching anything resembling common usage to the very breaking poiint.
As far as Harvard and Penn “Presidents:” Same story as wrt all “Presidents” in our fully financialized, totaitarian Dystopia: Entirely clueless and useless. They’re all the same now, from Biden on down. Nothing but dumb, dilettante dregs in permanent useless-idiot service to The Fed and it’s middlebrow beneficiaries. Every.Single.One.Out.Of.All.And.Every.One.Of.Them.Without.One.SIngle.Exception.Anywhere.
And wrt free speech: Hello!! It’s America! Hasn’t had a lick of free speech for half a century. Universities are certainly no worse than any other part of this totalitarian dump in that regard. If anything, they are less bad. But yes, it is America. “Less bad” in America, does not imply they don’t have a long way to go, before approaching even the freedom of speech enjoyed in Communist China, of all places.
But hey! Dumb, dilettante idiots of direct Fed welfare and nothing but, getting dumb, dilettante idiots on indirect Fed welfare and nothing but, “fired”; is no doubt “exciiiiiting” to cheer about, for dumb dilettante indoctrinates so braindead they fall for the nonsense pliantly and uncritically. Every.Single.Time.
The hoot of the day is Israel is currently committing war crimes “killing thousands of innocent Palestinians” yet somehow the total focus us is on Jews as the victims. What a completely upside down view of victim and perpetrator.
Here I though free speech was supposed to be protected. Yet University Presidents can be fired because they allow Palestinian rights groups free speech? How is it that people can openly root for Israel and the IDF which is committing war crimes, but somehow rooting for Hamas will get you fired? This is a blatant double standard which shows how brain washed the population is. The cognitive dissonance should make their poor little brains explode.
The university doesn’t allow free speech to those it opposes.
“Harvard was 248th out of 248, and Penn was 247th, in the annual college ranking by the free-speech Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.”
I think a lot of good will come of this as people redirect their indoctrination dollars to organizations that truly benefit mankind.
All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Free speech was written into the U.S. Constitution and applies to everyone except those we disagree with.
America has come a long way – unfortunately down.
It’s amazing how brain washed people are about Israel. I guess it really pays dividends to control the MSM.
Brainwashed, period. Nothing unusual about “Israel.”.
It’s a lot more ridiculous to listen to virtually an entire nation of indoctrinati, uncritically believing that obvously decaying manufactured goods are somehow “creating” wealth as they sit there withering away in the weather. As well as that printing dead people’s faces on paper somehow does the same. And how middlebrows who happen to pick the “correct” lottery numbers, must be really smart and “we” should listen to them. And how a few degrees of warmer weather, across a planet where near every lifeform huddles near the warmest parts, is somehow “The End.” And how some utterly boring and insignificant chat service, is somehow “a threat” to “humankind….” Never mind said chat service can’t successfully replicate a fruit fly. And, the big one: How “we” “must” “save” “our”-selves from all this, by “investing” paper with printed faces on them, in it!
The Stone Age, Bronze Age, Middle ages and Space Age is over now. We are now in the Dumb Age. Enabled by central banks; whose sole mission is to ensure that all people in any position of power is, at the very best, a mediocre middlebrow. Preferrably a straight up idiot. As well as an indoctrination system ensuring the indotrinati remain stupid and uncriytical enough to believe that morons whom The Fed have handed billions in stolen wealth to, are somehow “smart” and somethig to aspire to, solely on account of said theft……
You won’t get an argument from me.
A good reputation is the easiest and quickest thing to lose. If Harvard thinks that it will always pull in the best researchers and professors because it is Harvard should study what happened to the German universities after 1933. At the time they were the best in the world for science then, by getting rid of “undesirable” professors and students, they fell so badly that they never recovered even to this day. If Harvard fallows the same path it will suffer the same consequences.
The Harvard President was an affirmative action appointee and never should have been there. I’m just enjoying the delicious irony of whole woke establishment imploding on itself, given that much of this crap was funded and orchestrated by wealthy Jews.
Off hand, I can’t remember the name of any Russian university that is internationally known for scientific excellence these days. With your deep knowledge of Russia could you give me a few names?
I wish my knowledge of Russia was deeper so I could help you out. But I do appreciate excellent Russian writers such as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, great composers like Rimsky Korsakov and Tchaikovsky, and I’ll point out that Russians has made many contributions to math, science and technology.
Under the banner of antisemitism the west strike back the expansion of Islamic State
in Europe and the US engineered by Iran, Turkey and Qatar.
The Jews were the ones pushing the open borders crap. I’m glad it now biting them.
https://odysee.com/@Robocop999:e/zeSZRS2:6
Jews in general never have been, never will be, harmed by “open borders.” If there was ever a culture who managed to find a way to be useful enough to those around them to be left in relative peace, it was Jewish culture.
Instead, the current problems faced by Jews; are almost entirely due to them abandoning state- and borderlessness, in favor of exactly the sort of simpleminded, destructive, totalitarian Euro style democratic nationalism that almost wiped them out 75 years ago.
Josh Shapiro sacked Magill. MA gov will not oust Claudin Gay and MIT’s self hating Jew. Mish is childish. He is against Trump, Biden, Obama, Israel. Ukraine, Bibi, Putin, the Fed, the ECB, the BOJ…against everybody and everything.
Should we then assume that Mish is against Mom and apple pie?
I think not.
Who is “Bok”? That’s been left out of this post.
Now Ackman can get back on CNBS begging for bailouts while slobbering on the money honeys.
Exactly. The irony is dripping with irony.
These jewish donors had no problem with universities pushing efforts to “eradicate whiteness”, open borders, multiculturalism and a plethora of other leftwing nonsense. But when the students apply the same mindset created by the brainwashing the jewish donors helped to fund for years is directed at their precious biblical theme park in the middle east, they are outraged. Too effin’ bad!
The Indians, excuse me, Indigenous People used equivalently brutal tactics as Hamas to repel European encroachment. Yet we now celebrate “Indigenous Peoples Day” as a result of indoctrination of people educated at these universities (and organizations funded in no small part by – jewish donors). So why is there a need to condemn Hamas?
Same in France, where Hamas is vigorously condemned by people who celebrate the past action of the FLN (which fought for the independence of Algeria), while the FLN applied exactly the same methods as Hamas
We also have contradictions from people who fought for freedom of expression against “cancel culture” in universities, and who now fight freedom of expression when it comes to Israel
The infamous Barbara Spectre
https://odysee.com/@Robocop999:e/zeSZRS2:6
I was at Penn for six years, four as an undergrad and two at Wharton grad.
Penn is a very Jewish school, always was. When I was a student, the presidents were all Jewish. Most of the kids at Wharton undergrad (one of the most difficult schools to get into) were Jewish and from New York.
I am DELIGHTED to see this woman go.
Thanks for highlighting this incident, Mish.
And Jews know best right Mary ?
First Amendment Limits: Fighting Words, Hostile Audiences, and True Threats
Believe it or not, the First Amendment does not protect all types of speech.
https://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment1/first-amendment-limits–fighting-words–hostile-audiences–and-t.html
One man’s freedom fighter is the another man’s terrorist. Isn’t the IDF a terrorist organization butchering men, women and children? Why can people cheer on Israel and not Hamas. Seems like a huge double standard. Or does having a state actor make mass murder ok?
Israel was born by terrorism (the bombing of the King David Hotel and other acts). It has continued to implement terrorism on the Palestinian people to push them off their land. And when people fight back, they are the bad guy? Good one!
First Amendment; as intended by The Founders, as opposed to as “interpreted” by Smarmy Little Weasels post hoc; had no problem with “Fire!” in crowded theatres… As for fighting words: Noone halfway around the world from where the immediate fighhting is taking place, is in any position to utter meaningful, hence potentially non-protected, ones.
There is a meaningful difference between sitting halfway around the world carefully (or not) opining that it is perfectly justifiable to, in some situations, to kick someone’s brains in; vs standing next to someone yelling at him to keep kicking another guy lying in front of him on the ground. The first IS inevitably protected, no matter how un-PC it may currently be to hold the carefully considered opinion that it is somehow OK to kick in somoene’s brains simply becasue he happened to be born black. While the second scenario at least may be construed as actually taking an active part in the immediate physical violence itself. Hence the “fighting words” moniker. Siding with one part of a fight, verbally, is stricty different from taking part in the fight. The former IS protected. The latter is not. And in order for the mere uttering of words to entail actively taking part in an immediate fight you, at a very minimum; have to be VERY directly involved in an immediate fight indeed.
Now
If you approve allowing people to yell fire in a theater, you are simply nuts.
End of story.
Nothing is ever that easy.
Odorless, colorless, poisonus gas leaking into the theatre.
Fastest way to clear the theatre without a long explanation.
Shout fire.
Iocane is a powder, not gas.
It depends. Is the theater on fire? Will prompting a rapid evacuation save lives? The USSC ruling viewed the answers as yes, at least in one dissent.
Mish, can we go back to economics (and a small dose of politics)? This stuff is just not fit for serious debate. It just calls for the worst parts of our brains to react.
My next article will be on the CPI tomorrow morning.
Looking forward to it. But I also encourage you to continue writing posts like this one. This kind of rot needs to be named, shamed, and exposed.
Thanks!
A fine article. Ackman was spot on. Note recent reports of lack of originality of some of Gay’s research papers, which is a detenuration rationale.
However, their name and charter emit from the Great and General Court of the Commonwealth, the State Legislature. One can imagine the message from the General Court: “Hi, we are considering renaming you. Does ‘The University of Lagado” sound about right?”
I might have said: Ackman shows what a Harvard man can do with his fine education.