1. I don't think it's an accident that Stanford has become the vector point for high-brow Covid-19 contrarianism. The whole history and milieu of the university prepared it for this squalid moment.
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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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The 1st President of Stanford, David Starr Jordan, was also a prominent eugenicist.
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Was Stanford's loyalty oath anything different from the mania for loyalty oaths sweeping the country during McCarthyism? Univ. of California made employees take anti-Communist oaths starting 1949, and *still* requires oath to support CA & US Constitutions today!
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