The report is here. Many of the authors are, to my knowledge, distinguished in their field. Remarkably, the report never mentions the massive right-wing media propaganda campaign to discredit universities over the last 25 years–no mention of Fox, Tucker Carlson, The Daily Caller, etc. The positive proposals are mostly fine (universities exist to produce and disseminate knowledge, full stop), but to suggest that Yale or any other university brought this public disapproval on itself is unreal.
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Yes, Ellsberg’s experience was in the 50s and 60s. I don’t know enough about these issues to have anything meaningful…
I haven’t read The Doomsday Machine, but wasn’t Ellsberg’s experience in the 50s and 60s? When Eisenhower was writing pre-delegation…
On point 4, in The Doomsday Machine, which is based on the author’s personal experience as a RAND consultant advising…
What’s wrong with it is it’s so terrifying I don’t want to read it
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Bill and I had adjacent offices for my 15 years at Purdue. My fondest memory has little to do with…