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LR's avatar
May 7Edited

All univerisities are bloated.

We need to keep law, medicine, physics, mathematics, computer science, chemistry, biology, philosophy and theology, the rest are superflous.

MBA's are jokes. No entreprenuer takes them seriously. They're literally paper pushers, who cannot build anything of value.

Economics is another example of psuedoscience. It used to be political philosophy, which was fine. Finding profound relationships, like smith, between supply and demand is great. But then in the last 80-100 years it began branching out into its own field, building models on abstract concepts like "perfect competition" which, never, in all of human history, has ever existed. It's a fake science.

All of these castles in the sky, Alan, need to come down. That's how we will progress. Cut the fat. then reallocate money to hard sciences, law, medicine, things that matter.

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Tim's avatar

Theology is fake, dude. And computer science is mostly math and electrical engineering (physics). doesnt need its own department. Also, what do philosophers do exactly that is so great?

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Dr Jim Kinnebrew's avatar

I agree. One other item that should be considered is the ludicrous amounts of money spent on college sports. I enjoy NCAA football as much as the next guy, but coaches, ADs, stadiums, etc. should be self-supporting. If ticket sales, private donations, and TV deals can't pay for them, let them go. Pro teams can develop their own farm programs and universities can do what they were originally intended to do.

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Dr. B's avatar

After 3 generations of incompetent DEI imports and third world students, who could be surprised that Harvard is packed to the rafters with parasitic administrators, irrelevant professors, and radical “students”?

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David Merrifield's avatar

Bullshit!!! Harvard has an endowment that exceeds $53 billion.

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Parson Hicks's avatar

Harvard is not entitled to taxpayer money. That's where it starts and ends for me. I am a 2011 graduate of the Ed school and I have been an active participant in HBAS (Harvard Black Alumni Society) since graduating. What has happened here is shameful and I do not support it at all. Yet, there is no room for people like me who don't fall into the mainstream narrative, and my own Alumni group is led by highly partisan individuals constant forcing their personal, political views on the group. The university has lost its way and quite frankly its luster.

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Bob Sharpe's avatar

Yes.

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Hunterson7's avatar

Harvard has made itself a mediocre school. Nothing is irreplaceable. Even Harvard.

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greg starr's avatar

This podcast is simply a variation on the themes of his age-related obsessions. The general theme of Harvard and Trump is worth analysis, but by someone capable of doing it right, objectively and without that obsessive axe to grind and absent the Groundhog Day deluded narrative of-the Gentile establishments preventing full flowering of Ashkenazi Supremacy, both in the Mideast and in American academia..

Dementia is according to latest research progressively common after 8 decades of human life, Nothing to be ashamed about. It is an age-related infirmity with publically manifested symptoms. But it tends to make old people obsessive with characteristically one track minds unresponsive to either objective reality or reasoned discourse . Alan¨s frequent outbursts of Biden-like anger seem manifestations of this infirmity.. As to Dershowitz¨s rage and obsession with perceived limitations on Ashkenazi Supremacy, his fixation cannot be changed despite the evidence of his own success as a younger man in profiling his PR as America¨s most intellectual attorney. His obsession with antisemitism does not approach today¨s reality. . Jews are maximum 2% of the American population yet constitute 24% of the student body of Columbia, a national university. Alans obsession is that a twelve times overrepresentation does not contradict the practical absence of anitisemism as a talking point..

Ashkenazi Supremacy was the leitmotif of his conversations with Jeffrey Epstein, This idiotic racism is like phrenology, an immensely flawed ideology. He and Jeffrey referred always to superior genetics exemplified by the abilities of Einstein, Oppenheimer and a list of hundreds. Their premise was that the combination of German and rudimentary Semitic genes produced the most highly evolved intellectual homo sapiens. Yet while they preened themselves, walking and singing in harmony gaily down the Coney Island Boardwalk, (see the Vanity Fair article from 2004 on their bromance- - -BTW these guys were far from being teenagers) ), Alan and Jeffrey in their solipcism ignored all the abundant contrary evidence, including Bernie Madden, Harvey Weinstein, Jeffey Epstein himself, Mark Shapiro, ,Jonathan Braun, Bryan Singer, Rabbi Kahane, Marc Rich, Jonathan Pollard, the thrill killers. the honorary Ashkenazi George Nader, and the Chabad Lubawitch sect leadership famous both for massive bank fraud and applying Dr Mengele torture practices to kosher meat processing.

Lets wait for Professor Tribe to give a properly reasoned objective analysis of the theme of the Trump-Harvard relationship without the inexorable undercurrent of Israel Israel Israel.

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Jim Hoffmann's avatar

Have you sent your personal information to Alan yet?

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Deanne Martin's avatar

Definitely

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Gordon McCoun's avatar

I would be interested, as a non-lawyer, in your opinion of the relevance to Harvard of the Supreme Court's decision which caused Bob Jones University's to lose its tax-exempt status due to its discriminatory admissions policies. Are they comparable?

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Frank Shiffer's avatar

He answers your question right at the end. He starts with a bit of history and other comments before the topic itself is brought into the dialogue.

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Gordon McCoun's avatar

I didn't hear it. Where on the timeline is it? Thanks.

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Frank Shiffer's avatar

Maybe it was a similar University lost's its exemption. Ask Dr. Hershowitz, if he didn't maybe he would give you what you wanted to know. If your question is has any 501c3 lost its exemption, many times and depending on size would well include jail time. Add the additional charges for doing it cyber is especially egregious and it will be a deterent. Many flip at that point and work for the Feds, lol

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Michel Brisebois's avatar

Again great show, and I agree 100% with your discussion and points of view.

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