"In March, 2016, Peter Navarro introduced himself to students in Managing Geopolitical Risk in an Age of a Rising China, a new undergraduate course at the University of California, Irvine. Donald Trump was then a month away from becoming the presumptive Republican nominee for President. Navarro, who had tenure at the business school, was an academic oddity: he worked at a research university, but he'd done little serious research since finishing his doctorate in economics, at Harvard, thirty years earlier."
"And he didn't seem to enjoy contact with students. A former friend of his, an economist, recently said, 'I don't think he liked teaching that much-he liked talking.' Navarro had secured a life of privilege and frustration. He lived in a big house in Laguna Beach with an ocean view and a pool surrounded by statuary. But he plainly yearned to be somewhere, or someone, else. Shortly before Navarro's new course began, he sent an e-mail to John Graham, another U.C. Irvine professor, asking, 'Are you frigging deaf, dumb, and blind?'"
Peter Navarro taught a new undergraduate course at UC Irvine in March 2016 as Donald Trump neared the Republican nomination. Navarro held tenure in the business school but had produced little serious research since earning a doctorate in economics from Harvard thirty years earlier. He showed little taste for classroom contact and preferred speaking. He lived comfortably in Laguna Beach yet yearned for greater prominence and pursued various political and media ambitions. He attributed setbacks to his personality, acknowledged abrasive traits, and engaged in public spats. A mass e-mail pitch for his course reached thirty thousand students but yielded only seventeen enrollments.
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