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Max Novendstern

66 Articles

The Problem with Bankers' Pay

Exorbitant compensation threatens the stability of the banking system

Larry Summers' Endowment

The Boston Globe has a must-read article out on Larry Summer's role in Harvard's endowment collapse. I like the lede: It happened at least once...

Wall Street, Rhodes Scholars, and the Soul of the University

Last Saturday the 2010 Rhodes scholars were announced and a full five Harvard students were among them (along with two Yale students and one...

Connecting Liberty and Equality

For an allegedly "grotesque" (but, thankfully, "innocuous") confusion, Sam Barr's equation of liberty and equally is pretty well-founded empirically. Think about the history of...

Connecting to Cuba

America's policies towards Cuba have been total, unmitigated failures, so it's really good to see Obama making some important, initial changes. The entire premise...

What if Sergey Brin Were Denied a Visa?

The NYT came out with Part IV of its "Remade in America" series. It's a great series, full of the cool graphics that the...