[Krankor]

They don't have to teach, and they face no quotas on what they publish. Their only mandate is to work in the tradition of Einstein, wrestling with the most vexing problems in the universe.
Holy macaroni and cheese, how in the world do you get a job like that? I mean, they don't even have to come up with any answers. I wonder how you fill out the job application, "As a razor sharp person, I ruminate at least three times a day on which came first, the chicken or the egg." What's the job title? Most vexing universal problems wrestler? Will that even fit on a regular size business card? This sounds like an episode of Star Trek where some planet is ruled by a group of "Thinkers" who got everyone hoodwinked into actually listening to them until Captain Kirk gets the super hot looking girl "Thinker" to fall in love with him and then, after beating the snot out of a jealous male "Thinker", exposes them as a band of frauds and the whole planet goes back to being cavemen or something. Sadly, if this "genius" had just read a book about urban legends and how they're spread in the internet age, she could have saved herself a lot of time. But I guess that wouldn't take a lot of wrestling. Maybe this "elite" bunch are a lot like artistes- they have to suffer.

[A_perfect_lady]

Amazing, isn’t it? To get paid tens of thousands of dollars simply for pointing out that e-mail has made spreading rumors easier. What a gig.

[Bernard Marx]

Holy macaroni and cheese, how in the world do you get a job like that?

I think it would be fascinating to discover how Danielle Allen got her gig and just what her qualifications are for promotion to an "Einstein-level thinking" position. Is she a "quota Einstein?" Her use of taxpayer funds to engage in partisan politics and anti-free speech "research" makes me wonder.