Archive for Jack Sommer
Funding Science in America: Congress, Universities, and the Politics of the Academic Pork Barrel
Taxpayer funding of science in America is pretty meager compared to total federal spending. But legislators and interest groups intent on grabbing tax dollars for themselves don’t care whether the budget item is great or small. In recent years, federal funding for scientific research has become a prime target of the wastrels, and this pottage [...]
1Nov2000 | Jack Sommer | 0 comments | ContinuedIn Plato’s Cave
In Plato’s Cave is a memoir—perhaps “reflection” is more in keeping with the title—of an Ivy Leaguer who has seen the elite of American universities in better times, and who has the skill to reveal this truth in the fullness of its tragic and its comedic phases. Kernan, now retired from the university duties of [...]
1May2000 | Jack Sommer | 1 comment | Continued-
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JPMorgan Chase and Casino Banking
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Individualism, Trade-Unions, and “Self-Governing Combinations”
Who do you imagine said this? “[Trade-unions] seem natural to the passing phase of social evolution,... Read More
Bubbles, Malinvestment, and Higher Education
Many commentators are asking whether the next big bubble to burst will be the debt associated with the... Read More
JPMorgan’s Blunder Is No Market Failure
I am not going to try to defend JPMorgan Chase for its recent, widely reported financial blunders. ... Read More
For Equality; Against Privilege
This TGIF originally ran July 7, 2006. The freedom philosophy can be boiled down to two phrases: for... Read More
