2. Stanford was literally founded by robber barron (Leland and Jane Stanford). Herbert Hoover was in the first class. Well into the 1960s it had loyalty oaths demanding faculty affirm support of capitalism.
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3. Of course, all the elite American private schools are havens for plutocracy. But Stanford has an unusually intense relationship with big money: Silicon Valley is, in a very real sense, an offspring of Stanford.
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4. If Rome is the city built on seven hills, Stanford is the university built on seven (or more!) mounds of money: Facebook to the north, Apple to the south, Google towards the east.
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5. Some more thoughts on Stanford, the warping effect of big money on higher ed, and Covid-19 contrarianism.https://www.thenation.com/article/society/stanford-lost-soul-coronavirus/ …
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Yes. Tell this story. Please and thank you.
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it's called the Hoover Institute because it sucks
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And it makes me depressed.
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It has been a foul place overall that has presented itself as a counterweight to Berkeley in so many fields, ideologically and intellectually.
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