Elites Meet:
Rot at the Top
6 May 2013

¶ Felix Salmon has been following the Cooper Union catastrophe for some time now; on Monday, he laid out the derelictions of the school’s board of trustees with such clarity that the bunch of them ought to have left town in shame by now. But of course there is no shame for the modern trustee, a generic sort of person who tends to mix only with other trustees. It’s too bad that Governor Cuomo hasn’t interfered in Cooper Union’s affairs as effectively as he has done in Con Edison’s.

¶ Christian Parenti reviews a new, and very gloomy, book about Pakistan — about Pakistan-US relations, specifically, and. boy, what a mess. Did anybody out there wince at the violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty while watching the exciting climax of Zero Dark Thirty? No, I didn’t think so: that’s how big a mess. Of course, as Parenti insists, Pakistan is a first-class mess all on its own.

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