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Malcolm Gladwell says billionaires ‘sound like idiots’ when they explain why they donate to large universities

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Donating money to a university sounds like an inherently positive action, or at least a benign one — but that’s certainly not always the case, argues Malcolm Gladwell.

The bestselling author and host of the hit podcast “Revisionist History” made what he perceives to be the moral injustice of gifts to wealthy universities one of his crusades last summer when he attacked billionaire hedge fund investor John Paulson, after Paulson donated $400 million to Harvard University’s engineering school.

It’s the largest donation in the university’s history, and Harvard renamed the school the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied read more >>>

Source:: BusinessInsider.Com