Since the Academy in ancient Athens, universities have been engine rooms for human success through the discovery, recording, sorting and propagation of knowledge. Something however has changed in the past two generations. Not for the better. Government policy is again a key contributor.
Peter Turchin is a Russian-American complexity scientist whose field is the statistical analysis of historical trends.
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