"A politician's instincts are to compromise, split differences, and seek policies that please the maximum number of constituents and offend no one." This is true for the politician of a liberal democracy, but not a politician of a despotic regime. His self-appointed job is to get as much out of the "Chamberlains" as he can for nothing.

But under a fractional reserve system, not all the money is in the banks, only the required reserve. The rest is out in the form of loans. So if the government were to seize all of the money, it wouldn't get more than the reserve. It would, however, constitute one massive run on the banks.

I have read reports that the amount of food in these programs that is thrown out in the garbage is appalling.

“The desire of intellectuals for some grand theory that will explain complex patterns with some solitary and simple factor has produced many ideas that do not stand up under scrutiny, but which have nevertheless had widespread acceptance … in countries around the world. … What is there about group success that inflames mobs in such disparate times and places, not to mention mass-murdering governments in Nazi Germany or the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia?” CBS reporter Hughes Rudd once offered a “grand theory” to why “group success that inflames mobs in such disparate times and places.” And his grand theory is that, “people are just no damned good.”

Replacing "bean counter" with "race hustler" will yield a better description of what is going on.

The mission of education is to pursue truth, not to advocate for political causes. Those who are employed in education should save the world on their own time and their own time.

Well, the intelligencia wants its causes célèbres implemented, but it seems that those causes more often than not require taking away peoples' freedoms, and so naturally they resist. The responsible intelligencia rarely have the stomach to knock heads and/or "break a few eggs" required to eliminate those who do resist. This is where the Brown-shirted bully-boys come in: to do the dirty work for the brainiacs. This is why Leftism is inherently authoritarian.

Agreed!

Re: "Nor is she employable anywhere but dear old ECU." This isn't true. I would wager that it would be a rarity to find a school that doesn't employ several "Summer Wisdomthings". Like Ward Churchills, they are everywhere. To get an idea, do an internet search on "Less Academics, More Narcissism" by Heather Mac Donald. After reading how UC Berkeley spends on its army of diversiphiles [Prop 209 notwithstanding], I looked up the University of Arizona [the state where I live] and found out it spends six figures on a similar advocacy program [our Republican Governor and Prop 204 notwithstanding].

Re: “Administrative support is needed to enable rogue faculty members.” Enable them to do what? The answer comes toward the end of the article: To enable them “to use the classroom to pressure students into accepting their beliefs.”

Re: "And they have spent a lot of time and resources doing it." I would think that they ceased to be an institution of higher learning if they have this much time and resources to waste on a non-issue instead of studying.