Stanford’s former sailing coach pleaded guilty to conspiring with Singer, but no evidence has emerged that Singer suborned any coaches or officials at Harvard.

“But with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.”

As universities are beaten into the shapes dictated by business, so language is suborned to its ends.

The SP had suborned almost every other instrument of political action: It chose candidates for public office and manipulated the vote to make sure they were elected.

Mr. Boshea’s relative absolutism has the elegance of Alexander slicing the Gordian knot, but it would mean officers’ rights are suborned to the department’s public relations.