Comments on: Today’s Captain Renault Moment

By: Timothy Burke

Timothy Burke — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:22:40 +0000

Why do you think a US official who has sanctified torture is not a “Gaddafi” by my reckoning? I would very much take my concern to cover those cases as well.

By: barry

barry — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:11:56 +0000

"So maybe Iâ€ve educated a small-potatoes version of Gaddafi, for all I know, someone who is right now serving as the Deputy Underminister in an Interior Ministry and signing off on torture orders. " Why do you think that such a person would be a 'Gaddafi', as opposed to a large number of US officials and politicians?

By: laliamos

laliamos — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:09:55 +0000

I agree with the statement of Brutus 🙂

By: G. Weaire

G. Weaire — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:18:00 +0000

The notion of people getting terribly exercised over the proper ownership of the “Third Way” is darkly amusing.

By: Brutus

Brutus — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:03:32 +0000

I’m not certain what, precisely, you’re proposing, but the entire issue stems from a horrible case of hindsight bias. The irony that the school in question is the London School of Economics is kinda funny, considering the whole field of economics suffers from a glaring lack of predictive accuracy.

Rather than staring into the crystal ball and denying educations to potential despots, it would be much simpler to compile a list of those institutions that have already granted degrees to known criminals in government, finance, and other fields of significant influence. I’m certain many Ivy League schools would rank high on such a sweepstakes, but that wouldn’t be sufficient to censor such a school or even interfere with its admissions policies, now would it?