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The Blessed and the Brightest

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Pets or Livestock?
November 27, 2017
Anthony Levandowski's AI church, the Way of the Future, reminds us that the Silicon Valley power elite is utterly beguiled with gnosticism.

Poison Ivies
November 13, 2017
Our top institutions of higher learning run bloated endowment funds designed for higher earning—and avoiding scrutiny.

Don’t Troll, Organize
October 30, 2017
The whole point of the new breed of cloistered, self-dramatizing liberal protest is to create an activist version of the Harvard credo of success: once you’re in, you’re in.

The Lying Game
October 16, 2017
When a conservative commentator like Bret Stephens starts explaining how of “culture” dictates behavior, reach for your bullshit detector.

Getting Schooled
October 02, 2017
The chief lesson of the great liberal education fetish has always been to carelessly offload the savage inequalities of our economic order for our schools to rectify.