Maya Sen

Nothing would surprise me

I half suspect that Larry Summers had been informally advising them on their private equity/crypto strategy because it sucks so bad

Senate committee vows ‘vigorous oversight’ in killing of boat strike survivors The Republican-led committee’s pledge came after The Post reported that the defense secretary ordered that a U.S. strike on an alleged narcotics boat leave no survivors.

Don't sleep on this. A Republican-led Congress pushing back against the administration is 100% necessary, and this is how it starts

Supreme Court bars Trump from firing Library of Congress official for now | CNN Politics The Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked barred President Donald Trump from replacing a top official at the Library of Congress for now, deferring a decision on his emergency appeal until it resolves a ...

alternatively: so what is to stop Congress from creating future agencies & placing them all in the legislative branch?

www.cnn.com/2025/11/26/p...

Yep

Permanently kneecapping an entire co-equal branch of government

Yes very glad political scientists spent all that energy on close elections RDD studies and moderate vs progressive debates

It’s crazy

Feels as though these questions require a real clear-eyed look at the relationship between Congress and the executive, and the implications of this moment for separation of powers

NGL I am not confident SCOTUS is up to the task

School Groups Sue to Stop Dismantling of the Education Department

If the executive can unilaterally shift all functioning out of an congressionally established agency, then what is left of Congress’ lawmaking?

Why should Congress authorize executive agencies to do anything at all, ever?

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

Insightful piece by Larry Lessig on the need for more transparency in Harvard faculty members’ ties to Epstein

The 2020 Harvard Epstein report now looks like a big joke

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

lol too on the nose

Good point - it also creates hierarchies within the university that are bad

But there is every incentive to place people amendable to this business model in positions of leadership?

I was trying to figure out a way to put this in writing diplomatically and concluded that i could not

Thank you for doing it for me 😬

Ex) maybe now controversial to point out, but before she was fired by billionaires (Pritzker, ackman), Claudine Gay courted them hard

She even renamed Harvard’s graduate school after a billionaire. It’s her one signature accomplishment!

www.thecrimson.com/article/2023...

This article only scratches the surface of a complex issue

If university’s accept billionaires’ money then of course billionaires will want a say in how universities are run

And cuts to federal funding will only exacerbate research universities’ reliance on billionaire philanthropy

A big trend in higher ed and I absolutely hate it

This could get ugly!

Not crediting anyone - simply pointing out the politics

That said, a serious inquiry by Republicans on Harvard’s ties to Epstein will not meet with the kind of internal opposition that cuts to funding or cuts to student visas would

As I was saying…

Feeling vindicated in this take - Democrats should get Mamdani out on the cable news circuit! Stop ignoring him!

I've been on this train for years

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University of Chicago endowment PE chief leaves amid financial challenges University of Chicago has implemented a cost-cutting program that includes eliminating staff positions to help shore up its financial position.

update: Looks like a lot of these people have in fact left or been terminated (unclear)

www.buyoutsinsider.com/university-o...

Huh

“Had UChicago simply matched the market, its endowment would be $6.45 billion larger today—more than enough to repay its entire debt.”

Don’t understand why these people aren’t simply fired

My guys at the Harvard Management Company absolutely never miss

Imagine being Sotomayor & Jackson reading all these headlines, and thinking back to this exchange

sorry yes i mean to say nuisance investigations

Imagine being Sotomayor & Jackson reading all these headlines, and thinking back to this exchange

That John Roberts was more concerned with nuisance lawsuits against the president than he was with whatever this is will haunt this country for a long time

Any young scholar Summers has mentored must now ask themselves: “What has he said about me? And to whom? What part of the student-professor zone of confidentiality did he violate? Will all of this come out?”

And I am sorry for that - I know he mentored a lot of people and violated a lot of trust