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...Populism and elitism seem different, but they're really mirror images of one another. They both assume a country fundamentally divided. They both describe politics as a class struggle ... These days populism is in vogue ... If [populists] continue their random attacks on enterprise and capital, they will only increase the pervasive feeling of uncertainty, which is now the single biggest factor in holding back investment, job creation and growth...
...what the Times symbolizes to the media is nothing next to its outsize symbolism in the larger world. Entire websites are dedicated to critiquing it. To certain conservatives, it's a liberal Manhattan rag and élitists' pedestal; to certain progressives, it's a ruling-class newsletter and corporate tool (not contradictory charges, considering the Times's roots in liberal, moneyed New York City...
Each April, Dean Fitzsimmons announces a freshman class more ethnically varied than any previous one. Ethnic diversity has become a justifiable, if crudely expressed, obsession for Harvard and its peers. A separate, if related, diversity is that of nationality—yet this seems to be a more secondary concern. Less than one in nine Harvard College students comes to us from abroad...
Rookie Chad Eason (125) again wrestled above his weight class, suffering a fall to Bryan Ortenzio in just 38 seconds. Three other Harvard grapplers faced defeat in the same manner, as Penn demonstrated why four of its nine competitors are ranked...
When I was a kid, my best friend always called me Esmé. We’d be in Algebra class, taking a test, and she’d pass me a note, and it would read, on the outside, “For Esmé.” And, inside...