Some gems like 428 aside, I'm generally not a fan of "pure" VNs (the style is often much too verbose), but VN/puzzle hybrid games like Ace Attorney, 999/VLR or Ghost Trick have slowly established themselves this past decade as one of my favorite genres.

Not only the Ivory tower. Every facets of society has been captured by the managerial class.

What’s to stop the university board of trustees from running off with the hedge fund without the administrators to keep them honest (to protect their own jobs if anything) ?

An unavoidable, essential and expensive evolution with the rise (and the domination) of the managerial civilization.

Do you have any recommendations on books about "managerial civilization"?

* Managerialism: The Emergence of a New Ideology

* Mediocracy: The Politics of the Extreme Centre

* The Managerial Revolution

Words do not bleed.

Apostasy for ex-Muslims is punishable by death. It makes it much harder to be really a "choice".