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Why Is There So Much Saudi Money in American Universities?

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Re: Why Is There So Much Saudi Money in American Universities?

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I don't understand the protests. I would expect educating Saudi youth in exceptionally liberal institutions like universities in the Northeast to have a net liberalizing effect on the Saudi government and culture long term. Is this not a better use of Saudi funds then e.g. buying more weapons?

Re: Why Is There So Much Saudi Money in American Universities?

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I don't understand the protests. I would expect educating Saudi youth in exceptionally liberal institutions like universities in the Northeast to have a net liberalizing effect on the Saudi government and culture long term. Is this not a better use of Saudi funds then e.g. buying more weapons?

Kim Jong Un was educated in Switzerland, which has a very strong democratic environment, yet it didn’t change about how he ran North Korea.

Re: Why Is There So Much Saudi Money in American Universities?

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I don't understand the protests. I would expect educating Saudi youth in exceptionally liberal institutions like universities in the Northeast to have a net liberalizing effect on the Saudi government and culture long term. Is this not a better use of Saudi funds then e.g. buying more weapons?

> I don't understand the protests.

They were about the human rights abuses and war which some people find worth protesting regardless of whether or not a handful of wealthy elites get to attend a liberal university.

Re: Why Is There So Much Saudi Money in American Universities?

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Is there an alternate article link without paywall?

Bittercynic meantioned in another comment on a different post the following method. “Fwiw adding 0.0.0.0 samizdat-graph to your /etc/hosts fixes this for me”

> samizdat-graph

what? that's not even a valid domain.

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