According to this report, Harvard is hosting an event encouraging graduate students to apply for federal food assistance. I've been waiting for a wider take-up of this story, but it hasn't really happened (though here's a thread from Reddit). In my view, what we have here is a fundamental ethical failure, which is why it's so dangerous to allow the graduates of such institutions to hold positions of power and influence in society. How would we change this? A combination of measures to reduce the accumulation and influence of wealth, as well as public investments in creating the competitive advantages for people and groups currently excluded from them. Which is is a large part of the purpose of this newsletter, and informs much of the coverage here. Via Bryan Alexander.
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