After john palson gave his 400 million dollars to harvard in 20 15, i had a kind of twitter melt down. I said that stanford was part of a crazy arms race and ought to cut its endowment in half. The next day, i got an email from the president of stanford, john hennessy,. He wanted to get together and convince me i was wrong. So i talked to him, and we'll get to that conversation in a minute. For now i will only say that i was completely baffled by my talk with hennessy. It was as if he and i were speaking different languages. What are they thinking? Let me rut an