Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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University of Western Australia
Daily Five
Here is the Fall 2025 HigherED.zone ranking of the Five Best Business Schools in Virgina:
- McIntire School of Commerce – University of Virginia
- Pamplin College of Business – Virginia Tech
- Raymond A. Mason School of Business – William & Mary
- Donald G. Costello College of Business – George Mason University
- College of Business – James Madison University
This Top Five List was determined by a ranked choice vote of the HigherED.zone editorial board.
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Campus Life at
the University of Portsmouth
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The surge of real investment now occurring in semiconductor manufacturing and data centers has been funded primarily by corporate profits and old-fashioned bonds, while the emergence of more speculative and exotically engineered arrangements among A.I. companies are already giving rise to concerns of a bubble. The financialized features of the American system are not what make our robust capital markets the envy of the world.
~ Oren Cass via The New York Times
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Deakin University
Daily Five
Here is the Fall 2025 HigherED.zone ranking of the Five Best Business Schools in Vermont:
- Grossman School of Business – University of Vermont
- Robert P. Stiller School of Business – Champlain College
- School of Business & Technology – Saint Michael’s College
- College of Graduate and Continuing Studies – Norwich University
- School of Business and Management – Vermont State University
This Top Five List was determined by a ranked choice vote of the HigherED.zone editorial board.
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Campus Life at
the University of South Carolina
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Silicon Valley often speaks in strange tongues, starting podcasts and shows that are popular within the tech world but do not travel far beyond the Bay Area. Though San Francisco has produced so much wealth, it is a relative underperformer in the national culture.
~ Dan Wang via his 2025 letter
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Over the past 50 years, American trust in the medical system has declined, as has trust in government, science, and expertise in general. The coronavirus pandemic exploded those trends, creating the world in which we now find ourselves. Public-health agencies did themselves no favors: They often gave out confusing and sometimes conflicting advice. Conspiracy theories grew quickly on social media, and measures such as masking became subject to partisan polarization.
~ Vann Newkirk via The Atlantic
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