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Today in the American Meritocracy

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I alluded to this earlier, but the new hire to be president of the University of Iowa is amazing: On the résumé Harreld submitted to the regents, he listed his current job as the managing principal for the Colorado-based Executing Strategy, LLC. This company “confidentially (advises)...

When Plutocrats Joke

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High comedy here folks. Three of the world's richest and most powerful people (and Timothy Geithner) had a good laugh over income inequality earlier this year. Former Treasury Secretaries Robert.

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When education becomes a business

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William Deresciwicz, author of Excellent Sheep, has a provocative and fascinating essay in Harper's on the baleful effects of transforming education, and American undergraduate education in particular, into yet another a neoliberal training ground for "leaders," as opposed to thinkers: A couple of years ago, I...

Ya Think?

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Something that is much less likely to happen in Texas: Italy’s top criminal court on Monday said the murder case of Amanda Knox had “stunning flaws” — and that prosecutors.

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Labor Day Rundown

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Rather than blog a bunch about Labor Day I took to Twitter, where I wrote a Twitter essay and a bunch of follow up stuff about my views on the history of American workers. The core tweets were storified and you might be interested in them....
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