I agree with this, and on the last point what really gets me is the almost willful refusal to contemplate Stanford's own place in the firmament of American society, as if the free market just happened to influence Stanford through curriculum alone and not, say, through the institution's function as a part of the Silicon Valley/startup world and its larger role in elite formation and reproduction. Is the idea that, say, senators who graduated Stanford twenty years ago were deformed by not having heard The Right Opinions delivered at the right time? Because I defy anyone to have that sound a grasp on how to deliver a message.