Not All ‘Robber Barons’ Are Created Equal

Regarding Phil Gramm and Amity Shlaes’s op-ed “The ‘Gilded Age’ Myth, Then and Now” (May 8): The robber-baron title is better ascribed to the modern university system, which loads the young with debt, than to our present-day tech titans. Some of the damage from the universities is caused by giving…

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