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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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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let's also not forget that Stanford aided at abetted Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scam.
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Famously home to Hewlett & Packard, of course. But HP was in its pre-80s heyday one of the least horribly capitalist tech firms. Now of course it's one of the worst.
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The Hoover Institution is housed there, don't need to do too deep of a dive.
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I think you are very close to discovering the degree to which all universities are driven only to increase the return to their endowment.
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Don't let them off the hook for the Hoover Institute!
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