Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy

Notes and References:

1. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
2. The Trial by Franz Kafka
3. Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott
4. For this talk, I relied heavily on the work of Michael Zanini. His Substack is here: https://revitalize.substack.com/p/why-the-federal-bureaucracy-keeps
5. The article on the ballooning bureaucracy of Swedish higher education can be found here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10602-023-09408-x
6. The CNN article on how USC punished the professor is here: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/10/us/usc-chinese-professor-racism-intl-hnk-scli
7. The article on the Stratford bankruptcy can be found here: https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/stratford-university-files-for-bankruptcy-president-vice-president-listed-as-biggest-creditors/article_6a39611c-b77e-11ed-bb60-0f23e8ea0812.html

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