To Read against the Chronicle of Higher Ed article on the moment higher ed died in the US. The LA Times is also cited: thenewinquiry:

By Robin James

Big data doesn’t forecast the future but remakes the present in the image of down-to-earth stereotypes.

While Theodor Adorno was exiled in Los Angeles, he wroteThe Stars Down to Earth, a short book about the “pseudo-rationality” of mid-20th century American culture…