Alec Hogg: What should funders’ parents do about Academia’s left turn

Headlines this morning belong to last night's news from the US's west coast that the world's fourth richest man, Bill Gates, is to divorce his wife of 27 years, Melinda. You'll find his morning's Wall Street Journal's story below.Top read opinion piece in today's is by John Ellis, prof emeritus at University of California in Santa Cruz. It addresses how academia has adopted a different purpose to the one society gave it – and what society should do about this radical divergence. I first came across this line of thinking when listening to Dave Rubin interviewing British historian, academic and author Niall Ferguson. Helen Zille focuses on a similar theme in much of the conversation we had during our discussion last week – click here.On the BizNews Power Hour (BPH) last night Justin Rowe-Roberts explained that after listening to four hours of the Berkshire AGM with Warren and Charlie (we ran some highlights) he reckoned Greg Abel would succeed Buffett as CEO at the $650bn company. This morning Berkshire itself confirmed Justin's gut feel. Click here for the WSJ story. If you're stuggling to access our US partner's website, please read the blue box below which has all the info you need about a benefit worth $29 a month which comes as part of your BizNews Premium subscription.Every evening just before 5:30 we distribute the BPH lineup via the BizNews Premium WhatsAll channel. If you haven't joined yet, here's the link: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IvrJiH1Y8Cz9VtzhzMvlxG. We also have an in-studio camera which broadcasts BPH live via YouTube. If you subscribe to the BizNews TV channel you'll be automatically reminded by YouTube when we're live (click below). ___STEADY_PAYWALL___.NB FOR YOUR WALL STREET JOURNAL ACCESS….Because of The Wall Street Journal's credential requirements to access its site, your password MUST be at least 8 characters and include at least one letter and one number; and it MAY NOT contain any special characters (ie #, !, @ etc). To maintain access to WSJ.com, you MUST enter our partner's website at least once a month via BizNews Premium.And for your listening pleasure.Today's fresh audio on BizNews Radio.…..(click on the link to access).BPH: Shapiro co-host; Berkshire AGM takeaways; SA's fairytale English soccer story continues; Powership corruption; Mozam updateFB: Covid-19 vaccine blow for SA; cryptocurrencies climb; big week for rand, will Moody's downgrade SA (again)?Expect the rand to stay stronger, for longer – TreasuryONE's Andre CilliersCarly Barnes of EasyEquities on JSE/US price action; NPN, TONKokkie Kooyman on Remgro selling 40m shares of FirstRandInvest your 12J tax saving where Gidon Novick has his own moneyHow a small-scale farmer mushroomed his business

Alec Hogg: What should funders’ parents do about Academia’s left turn

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