Formalism was the best ism.

City comedy is where it's at, though. Asking students to adapt the concerns of City Comedy into a modern setting is such a fun exercise.

Break it Down Again; Stand by Me; Shine on You Crazy Diamond; Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.

3/ All that talk of wanting to create an alliance with the non-college working class but accidentally waking up in bed with senior managers rings hollow. When a university rushes to fire cafeteria workers to protect the endowment, it creates a guide map showing fascists exactly where to squeeze.

2/ When it became normal to have tens of billions of dollars in endowments to run universities (and rankings basically became directly correlated with endowment size). Trump is only the visible symptom that knows how to exploit a longstanding malaise. It was a conscious self-serving ride to hell.