Showing posts with label elitism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elitism. Show all posts
Thursday, March 02, 2023

Prof. Gilles Saint-Paul (Ecole Normale): the Yellow Vests, French Politics, and Hypergamy (Manifold #31)

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  Audio (podcast only) Transcript   Gilles Saint-Paul is Professeur à l'Ecole Normale Supérieure. He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechniq...
Thursday, September 22, 2022

Rob Henderson: A Journey from Foster Care to the US Military to Elite Academia — Manifold podcast #20

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  Rob Henderson grew up in foster homes in California, joined the Air Force at 17, attended Yale on the G.I. Bill, and is currently a Gates ...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

Harvard Veritas: interview with a recent graduate (anonymous) — Manifold Episode #18

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  The guest for this episode is a recent graduate of Harvard College, now pursuing a STEM PhD at another elite university. We have withheld ...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

Men Without Women

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This short story has it all -- genetic genealogy, ultra high net worth physics quant banker, stripper, cop, marriage, family, New Yorker wr...
Sunday, June 13, 2021

An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy (Kenny Xu)

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Kenny Xu is a brave young man. His new book An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocrac...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Schrodinger's Cat and the Normaliens

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Yesterday I had cause to look something up related to macroscopic superposition states ("Schrodinger cat states") in Serge Haroche...
Thursday, September 05, 2019

Former Yale Law Dean on Harvard anti-Asian discrimination case: The facts are just so embarrassing to Harvard... Quotas and a climate of dishonesty

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The excerpt below is from a recent interview in the Chronicle of Higher Education . Anthony Kronman was Dean of Yale Law School from 1994...
Saturday, July 27, 2019

Brainpower Matters: The French H-Bomb

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Michel Carayol , father of the French H-Bomb. The article below illuminates several mysteries concerning the French development of ther...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Dialogs

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In a high corner office, overlooking Cambridge and the Harvard campus. How big a role is deep learning playing right now in building ge...
Thursday, June 21, 2018

Harvard Office of Institutional Research models: explicit racial penalty required to reproduce actual admit rates for Asian-Americans

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This is my third post discussing the Students For Fair Admissions lawsuit against Harvard over discrimination against Asian-American applica...
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Harvard Office of Institutional Research on Discrimination Against Asian-American Applicants

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Harvard's Office of Institutional Research (OIR) produced a series of internal reports on discrimination against Asian-American applican...
Monday, January 09, 2017

The Gulf is Deep (Heinlein)

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The novella Gulf predates almost all of Heinlein's novels. Online version . The book  Friday  (1982) is a loose sequel. Wikipedia ...
Friday, October 07, 2016

Where Nobel winners get their start (Nature)

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Nature covers some work by Jonathan Wai and myself. See here for a broader ranking of US schools, which includes Nobel, Turing, Fields awar...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Elite schools, birthright, and credentials

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In mixing together the truly talented with the rich and powerful, elite US universities perform a useful service to both groups. Khan ...
Monday, November 02, 2015

Houellebecq on Tocqueville, Democracy, and Nietzsche

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I prefer good literary criticism. But this is not it: Beyond some trivialities, the discussants make no progress toward the questio...
Friday, September 18, 2015

Bourdieu and the Economy of Symbolic Exchange

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From Bobos in Paradise by David Brooks. This part of Bourdieu's oeuvre is, of course, required reading for all academics. By academi...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

Colleges ranked by Nobel, Fields, Turing and National Academies output

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This Quartz article describes Jonathan Wai's research on the rate at which different universities produce alumni who make great contribu...