Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

I LOVE THIS MEME:

INDIANA JONES SHOWED US HOW TO DEAL WITH GUYS LIKE THIS:

OUT: LEARN TO CODE. IN: Pity the Harvard Undergrad: AI is taking their jobs. “Remember the three types of jobs: working with things, working with people, and working with symbols (writing, calculating, programming). College is supposed to help you get into the latter. For Harvard graduates, this means management consulting (McKinsey), finance (Goldman Sachs), or law school. The entry-level jobs in management consulting, finance, and law all pay well, but the work is often quite routine.”

“One way to be employable is to look for jobs that combine working with symbols with other skills. For example, a nurse has to work with people, things, and symbols. I know that when you got into Harvard your parents did not think you would become a nurse, but they did not anticipate that AI would take away so many other options. . . . My prediction for Harvard undergrads? Pain.”

LOL, DAN RATHER:

It’s been over 20 years since he tried to swing a presidential election with forged documents.

THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP:

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

KEITH WHITTINGTON: On The Politics of University Autonomy. “No matter how normatively attractive an independent judiciary or an independent university might be, institutional independence is a political construct and must be maintained through political effort. And ‘independent’ institutions are always politically vulnerable to being rendered less independent if they become too politically costly. Strategic university leaders should recognize that university autonomy is politically contingent and cannot simply be assumed. Unfortunately, university faculty and administrators have become forgetful that university independence, like judicial independence, rests on political foundations.”

A number of years ago I had to explain to our then-Faculty Senate President that the legislature could do whatever it wanted with the University. She objected that they only provided a fraction of our funding. Yes, I said, but they effectively own the University. They could close it, turn it into a clown college, or make it a branch of Hamburger University if they wanted. Normally they leave us alone, but that’s contingent on not being provoked. The provocation at the time, if I recall correctly, was a number of faculty (mostly graduate assistants) who told their freshmen that their parents were dumb hicks and that they were going to help them unlearn all the dumb crap their parents had taught them. Weirdly, this was poorly received by the parents, who were voters. The legislative hearing on the subject was lit.

And it’s not as if our “independent” institutions have actually been lit. They’ve been fully captured by the Democratic blob, and if anyone in them dared to deviate an inch they were mobbed and often ruined. So small loss.

WHAT “SAVING DEMOCRACY” LOOKS LIKE:

#JOURNALISM (CONT’D):

#JOURNALISM:

OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.