High schoolers, students: the twilight of macronism
By Thomas Piketty. Source: https://thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2026/10/20/high-schoolers-students-the-twilight-of-macronism/
In other words, France has never been richer. The problem to solve is simply one of distribution. The situation was far more difficult in 1945, when public debt was even higher than today and private fortunes were depleted. Yet that did not prevent the introduction of a national solidarity tax with rates of several dozen percent on the largest fortunes, which could yield much more today. Those who endlessly repeat that nothing substantial can be expected from this side are clearly at odds with mathematics, as well as with history.
The math myth and other STEM delusions
By Andrew Hacker.
ISBN 978-1-62097-069-0 (e-book)
So here’s my concern. It’s that the mandarins aren’t content to stick to their scholarship. Rather, they take it as given that their intellects give them license to dominate much of our educational system and set priorities for the greater society. In a word, they have a cause, founded on the supposition that their realm reveals the human mind at its finest. Among some mandarins, mathematics is a secular ideology; for others, it is a cerebral theology.