population—told him and his classmates an unvarnished truth: “You live in a bubble. The result was an efficient system of transcontinental transportation, the creation of fabulously wealthy corporations and a tiny elite that ran them, and so much worker resentment directed at the barons that Stanford chose to relocate from a San Francisco mansion to an agricultural area to the south that was renamed for the region’s tall trees: Palo Alto. As Harris acknowledges, it’s unlikely the Stanford board of trustees will allow any broader reparations of land