Category: Winnowing

  • 20/03/2021
    Cal Tech and the eunuchs of science Catchy title. Founded (1891) as Throop University [Cal Tech], a coeducational institution for…
  • 19/03/2021
    On being the right size On being the right size In the early 20th century, big companies were synonymous with…
  • 27/02/2021
    On the right stuff From one of Paul Graham’s essays: Princeton professor Robert George recently wrote: “I sometimes ask students…
  • 23/02/2021
    Perry Anderson · Ever Closer Union? · LRB 7 January 2021 Perry Anderson wrote three articles recently in the LRB…
  • 21/02/2021
    The Wealth of Nations China’s hidden crisis Much of the blame for all this rests with Mao, whose Cultural Revolution…
  • 19/02/2021
    Thinking clearly It is a fun trope to imagine that ability in one domain comes at the cost of another.…
  • 13/02/2021
    Canada pushes abundant PhD graduates towards industry needs | Times Higher Education (THE) Canada’s universities need to adjust their doctoral…
  • 12/02/2021
    More evidence in the case against Luxembourg | Financial Times Luxembourg sometimes resembles a criminal enterprise with a country attached.…
  • 07/02/2021
    Britain Alone: the Path from Suez to Brexit, by Philip Stephens I know little about Paul A Myers except that…
  • 26/01/2021
    Machines #1: A crisis of connoisseurship The Economist | Computer says no Conventional scholarship involves the study of aesthetics, style…