Did LSE compromise the integrity of its PhD for Gaddafi's oil money?

As we reported before, LSE's philosophy department got seriously entangled with Libyan oil/blood money. The story won't die, and plagiarism charges are now being investigated.

It is worth distinguishing between the role that LSE faculty had in teachers of would be tyrants (or technocrats that advise tyrants). In my research (on, say, the Chicago Boys in Chile under Pinochet [here's the published version]) I call this a version of the Socratic Problem (which I have also explored in reception of Newtonian natural theology). There are non trivial, interesting and  complex moral issues involved on such cases. But...while the jury is still out, it could be that this is fundamentally a simpler case: the lure of money and political influence (in Libya) led to lowering of standards.