Steve Sailer writes: One of the older American collegiate jokes is a college president promising to build a university worthy of its football team (this may go back to the U. of Maryland in the early 1950s).
With the U. of Missouri football team firing the president and chairman of the board, it looks like Mizzou will get an administration worthy of its football team, which is 1-5 in conference play and has wracked up quite a record in recent years for sexual assault and domestic violence charges…
On the other other hand, Manhattan-born Paul Singer uses his giving on Presidential candidates (it was front-page news when he endorsed Marco Rubio), fundraise for the Manhattan Institute, push for gay marriage, Israel, and more immigration (for America, not Israel). But I can’t find any word of him donating to an American college football program. You can buy a lot of think tank staffers for the cost of first rate offensive coordinator.
COMMENTS:
* Mindless obsession with sports is the height of goyish stupidity. How can worldly middle-aged men take the “success” of a bunch of illiterate ghetto thugs as their personal success? Truly these are strange days.
* I look at what institutions wealthy (or even just upper middle class) Southern White Republican donors give their money too and I just sigh. There is just very little regard for anything beyond even a five year time horizon. Most Americans still have the notion that these large institutions (government, academic and corporate) actually give fig about their well-being. I’m sure they still think, for example, a company like GE always has America’s best interest in mind.
We may criticize Paul Singer but buying influence at places like Brookings or AEI goes much farther than donating money for an alumni center at FSU. Shame on us.
