Lords in Disgrace

NEA Jazz Master Maria Schneider creates music that critics describe as “heartstoppingly gorgeous and beyond categorization.” With her orchestra, she introduces her bold new piece, Data Lords, which explores life simultaneously being lived through the natural and digital worlds.

This book identifies the causes of rising college tuitions. It identifies a system of policies, practices, and regulations that have converted higher education into an inefficient system that serves the interest of the tenured class and professional educators over that of the students. Using statistics, analysis, and examples, the author identifies and names the culprit behind these tuition increases as structural and cultural liberalism, all of which has created a tax on students and tuition payers.

This book identifies the causes of rising college tuitions. It identifies a system of policies, practices, and regulations that have converted higher education into an inefficient system that serves the interest of the tenured class and professional educators over that of the students. Using statistics, analysis, and examples, the author identifies and names the culprit behind these tuition increases as structural and cultural liberalism, all of which has created a tax on students and tuition payers.

It is well known that political, economic, and social power in the British Isles in the Middle Ages lay in the hands of a small group of domini-lords.

Vincent is a secretary of state, a powerful man, not bad looking, rather elegant, who likes his food and wine. Odile, his mistress, a very beautiful young woman, is intelligent, clear-headed, charming.
Don’t hitch your fate to young women who are too beautiful, my friends: it can cost you dearly. As soon as Vincent is thrown out of his job, Odile ditches him.
Theodiere, the new secretary, takes over Vincent’s sumptuous office. He changes everything: the shelves, furnishing fabrics, the desk, chairs, even the telephone and the ashtrays. Will it last long? Who knows. He’s optimistic.
Meanwhile, Vincent, the former secretary, starts living at last…
And if, at the end of our story, Vincent crosses paths with Theodiere, his rival and successor, now also in disgrace, it will be without hatred or perverse joy that he’ll say: “You look tired… Hey, have a drink!”