Bamboozled?

Philosopher Ernst Tugendhat on the success of German academicians at American universities:

Here there’s a lot of mudslinging in universities. In England and the USA, people have a different way of approaching questions, particularly with me, because my style of thinking is rather Anglo-Saxon. Many German colleagues have it easier in America because there people think, oh, that’s some German profundity that’s so profound that it can’t be understood anyway.

Could that explain the phenomenal career of Henry Kissinger?

By the way, these are dark days for the German University system. In the recent Shanghai ranking of the top 500 universities in the world, the top Germany univesity – LMU Muenchen – placed only at number 53. The nuber one university in the world?  Harvard, which just announced its endowment increased to $33 billion.  The rich get richer….