But I'm stubborn as these garbage bags that time cannot decay I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. - Leonard Cohen, ''Democracy''
Yale President, self-styled pragmatic Democrat, and Thomas Friedman-inspired global citizen Richard Levin is reportedly on the short list to replace Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank. It's times like these you wish Zach would arise from his self-imposed blog hibernation. History suggests it's only a matter of time...
posted by Josh Eidelson at 5/23/2007 03:12:00 AM
Josh Eidelson received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Political Science from Yale University, where he helped lead the Undergraduate Organizing Committee. He has written about local and national politics as an opinion columnist for the Yale DailyNews, a research fellow for Talking Points Media, and a contributor to CampusProgress.org. Views expressed here are solely his own. Contact: "jeidelson" at "gmail" dot com.
4 Comments:
This is fascinating, but not surprising for anyone who ever read this speech. The line between the neoliberal university and the tiny carrot/big stick engine of neoliberal governance is particularly then when talking about someplace as integrated into imperial technologies of late-capitalist accumulation as Yale's administration has been with Levin at its helm. Also, i'm noting this in a pepr i'm working on...
also, so much for the whole "commisioner of baseball" hypothesis.
This is more trivial, but I'm more interested in the Dick Brodhead returns to Yale as Levin's replacement hypothetical.
—Maureen
Well, it's Zoellick anyway. And I'd be surprised if Yale's next president came from the humanities, unless the corporation thinks Brodhead has the fundraising ability and technocratic savvy to replace someone like Levin. And it always seemed to me like the Brodhead worship came primarily from awestruck undergraduates.
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