PB wrote: >(Anyone else getting these feeble letters from the alma mater?
Really, can we not pass up such an opportunity to gloat? The>college I went to
was ranked, at the time, #1 for undergrad economics in the US by the silly
magazine US News and World Report. I>had great teachers like Bernie Saffran and
FM Scherer, my thesis advisor. But it took *political economy* to give me any
sense of>why the Crash of 2008 was inexorable, and quite a lot of deprogramming
of neoclassical dogma went into that.) I sez: The letter is feeble principally
because Swarthmore's deep pockets alumni probably have portfolios similarly
proportioned to Swarthmore's own endowment,and hence are themselves tapped...
relatively speaking, of course. I received an e-mail epistle along more or less
the same lines from my own alma mater, which is tucked into the same upper
middle class/liberal arts nicheas Swarthmore, although it's deservedly famed
for being more "pwogwessive." For the last few years its big campaign (or the
big campaign of its selfappointed defenders, I should say) has been to disavow
any responsibility for spawning the career of the redoubtable Michelle Malkin.
It's embarrassingenough when the first US college to admit blacks and women
features as its most high profile graduate an attack dog advocate of Japanese
internment anddeporting all the brownskins without papers. It's downright
awkward when said attack dog is a Filipina-American female and said school was
too often anincubator of the worst kind of identity politics. Anyway, just some
inchoate reminiscing since I crashed the gates of 40 a while back. Carry on. PS
Patrick, I understand the merits of tactical interventions and tactful prose,
but really... social investment funds? This coming from someone who
hascompellingly ripped to shreds the Grameen Bank and micro-credit hoaxers?
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