Costs of Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle

When the University of Illinois began suffering the consequences of public and legislative anger about the unfair allocation of scholarships, efforts to control the public mood became expensive. The Chicago Tribune reported on April 20, 2012 that, during a three…

Guy Farbar Not Always Fiction

In his novel The Privileges, published by Random House, Jonathan Dee introduces a company executive who may be very true to life: The main character’s equity investment firm is on its way to meet Guy Farbar, the outsized personality who…