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As a play of struggle between himself and forces attempting to control him, Jackson's early life was quite similar to those of many people who end up sitting in America's jails and to not a few who end up sitting upon the right hand of GM or any...
Loyalty to the South he'd inherited and devotion to the South he invisioned were crucial to Tate's intellectual development. As an undergraduate at Vanderbilt after the first World War, he became part of a group of literati called the Fugitives, including John Crowe Ransom and Robert Penn Warren...
This vision of "a virtual caste system" is appalling, Herrnstein admits, because it "reminds us of aristocracies, privileged classes, unfair advantages and disadvantages of birth." But there is a difference: the new aristocracy's prerogatives would stem from genuine ability and hence, Herrnstein seems to imply, would be fair...
Meantime, legislators have grown reluctant to bail out campuses with more tax money. Irked voters have demoted academe from its once-exalted place in the U.S. pantheon. Some view colleges as subversive sanctuaries-or perhaps sanatoriums-for a privileged caste of professors and long-haired scoffers at cherished values. Worse...
(11 of 11) diplomaism continues to be a national disease. Business and Government alike insist upon unnecessary credentials on the part of job applicants. This not only creates a new caste of unemployables?the luckless but qualified people who lack the right degree?but it tends to confuse the real...