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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of USC Now
USC leaders believe their institution’s transformation over the past three decades from a regional party school whose academic reputation lagged far behind its crosstown rival UCLA into a globally recognized research university ranked among the top thirty institutions in the … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of CalTech Now
Caltech leaders believe their institution’s extraordinary ratio of Nobel Prize winners to total faculty, which exceeds every other research institution in the world on a per capita basis, reflects the genuine intellectual culture that Caltech’s specific commitment to fundamental science … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of Cambridge
Cambridge leaders believe their institution’s rivalry with Oxford, which structures so much of Cambridge’s self-presentation, its recruitment materials, its internal culture, and its claims to distinctive intellectual identity, represents a genuine competition between two different intellectual traditions, Oxford’s emphasis on … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of Oxford
Oxford’s leaders believe their institution’s eight hundred year continuity represents an unbroken tradition of intellectual excellence whose accumulated wisdom justifies Oxford’s claim to a distinctive authority in shaping how educated people across the world understand knowledge, governance, and human possibility … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of MIT Now
MIT leaders believe their institution’s identity as a place where rigorous technical problem-solving produces solutions to humanity’s most pressing challenges represents a genuine institutional culture that distinguishes MIT from peer universities whose broader humanistic commitments have diluted their capacity for … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of The University Of Chicago Now
University of Chicago leaders believe the Kalven Report’s principle of institutional neutrality, which prohibits the university from taking official positions on political and social controversies, represents a foundational commitment to academic freedom and intellectual pluralism that distinguishes Chicago from peer … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of Harvard Now
Harvard’s administration believes its decision to fight the Trump administration’s funding freezes and regulatory demands reflects principled defense of academic freedom and institutional autonomy rather than the belated discovery that an institution which spent decades accumulating federal dependencies, building administrative … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of Princeton Now
Princeton’s leadership believes its decision to pay reparations, becoming the first major American university to formally acknowledge and attempt to compensate for its historical ties to slavery, represents a principled moral reckoning with institutional history rather than a sophisticated reputational … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Blackrock Now
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are operating at full fiduciary throttle in BlackRock’s Manhattan headquarters, the San Francisco tech offices, the London and Hong Kong trading floors, and Larry Fink’s personal briefing book right now. With the U.S.-Israeli campaign in its … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Joe Rogan Now
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are operating at full long-form throttle in Joe Rogan’s Austin studio, the Spotify war room, his YouTube production bunker, and the endless text threads with bookers, fighters, and conspiracy guests right now. With the U.S.-Israeli campaign … Continue reading