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...Class is still our dirty, little secret. We, like many Americans, prefer to pretend that class is something that exists out there. We can bemoan widening inequality America??€”even trumpet our own socioeconomic diversity (thanks to the Harvard Financial Aid initiative) to the outside world—without ever turning the gaze inward. Harvard students, many insist, occupy the same social playing field. Financial aid is generous; everyone eats the same dining hall food and lives in the same dorms. Due to public transportation and the paucity of parking in Cambridge, few students drive around flashy cars...
...Status anxiety is nothing new in America. Alexis de Tocqueville first remarked that the flipside of America??€™s democratic spirit is class anxiety. Due to the absence of aristocratic titles or estates, families are seldom blessed with status for more than a few generations. One group is always rising, while another is fading. Harvard and schools like it are at the epicenter of these social shifts. Such universities no longer educate the nation’s elite; now they make the nation’s elite...
...Using nothing but dots and dashes and a few volts, members of the Harvard Wireless Club—America??€™s oldest amateur radio club—can reach out to over two million users around the world...
...tweed is coming off. Increasingly, America??€™s conservative youth are shedding their stiff reputations for a new sort of rabble-rousing. Particularly, the image of social conservatism is shifting. The best example of this phenomenon is, not surprisingly, in the area of sexual politics. The success of the socially liberal agenda, in the form of increased openness about sexual matters, has caused the tables of tradition to turn...
Amid the hullabaloo following the Supreme Court’s five-to-four decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban, America??€™s elite newspapers responded predictably...