How to Be a Real Contrarian

I don't even know how they do it I mean do you just get up in the morning and decide I'm going to say wrong stuff because my friends say wrong stuff, he asks. He has a massive intellectual crush on people like Peter Thiel's idea of being contrarian which is reasoning about every issue on its own merits. The head of the American Mathematical Society was at MIT and he walked into the common room one day and he said we are going to boost the percentage of American citizens receiving PhDs in mathematics from U.S. universities but when Michael told him that wasn't what would happen his reaction was so anger-filled he got out of the Common Room. "You can