Friedrich Hayek is almost universally recognized as one of the most profound and influential thinkers of the modern period.
But a person could throw rocks for a month on any campus in America and not hit a professor with any competence or interest in the work of one of the few thinkers of the last 100 years who really matters.
Why is that? Megan McAdle looks at an important dimension of the filter system of the university culture which dramatically shapes the cognitive output of this vestigial organ from the days of the medieval guild.
