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...REFRESHING CHANGE?...
...economic boom, two-thirds of Americans thought that “the lot of the average person is getting worse.” On the left, Utne-reading Luddites condemn materialism and consumerism, longing for a squalid, pre-industrial past. On the right, conservative nativists fear immigration and social change??god forbid we lose the WASP culture that made this country great. And elites across the spectrum bemoan the base popularization of high culture...
...event, fast forward a quarter century. Having spent most of my time since graduation working on global warming, I found myself last summer in a funk. The nation was finally beginning to accept the reality of climate change??Hurricane Katrina had blown open the door, and Al Gore ’69 had walked through it with his fine movie. But still there was nothing happening in Washington—the 20-year bipartisan effort to accomplish absolutely nothing about the greatest problem humans have ever faced continued unabated...
...While a rigid, hierarchical gap between the perceived importance of events on the field of play and events in the classroom was growing only larger, a glaring gap of another kind—despite an initial step by Harvard in the direction of change??has made little in the way of progress since...
...Reardon agrees. He also notes that any change??whether physical, philosophical or racial—takes time to implement...