To pick up from Warp Whistle 11 of “The Investor’s Warp Whistles,” what follows are specific examples of administrative bloat as well as lessons from what a college looks like today. Administrative Bloat These excessive expenditures serve to enhance the university’s brand or to attract prospective students—but they do nothing to improve the quality of […]
Our national, annual spend on one of the most loathed American-owned/operated sites is beyond the pale. Put aside the inhumanity for a second and brush aside the self-proclaimed, non-constitutional “right” for the US to detain prisoners without trial for an unlimited amount of time; put all that aside and you still have the sheer cost […]
In Ancient Greece sophists were teachers who taught virtue, which in those days generally meant the art of statesmanship, to young men rich enough to afford their services. Sophistry, as their art was called, is a trade much criticized in the dialogues of Plato, where Socrates attacks not only the practice of teaching for a […]
