Word: douthatã
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Though I do not necessarily subscribe to the idea that wide student choice in class selection is harmful, I sympathize with Douthat??s point—it can actually be difficult to graduate from Harvard with the basics of a liberal arts education...
...Douthat??s dissections of class dynamics in his first-year Straus entryway, ethnic self-segregation in the College, and the Hasty Pudding embezzlement scandal are entertaining and provocative, raising salient questions about the role of race and status at an ostensibly diverse university...
...Douthat??s sharpest observations are reserved for an illuminating chapter on final clubs, chronicling his ultimately unsuccessful punch for the Porcellian. Against all odds, the shy, unconnected Douthat survives two rounds of cuts, allowing him access to cocktail parties at the vast estates of well-endowed club alumni...
Privilege may be a launchpad for Douthat??s career, but it lacks the intellectual passion he spends the book searching for—the authenticity and originality he expected at Harvard but never found...
...parochial” for examining “Muslim-animistic syncretism in Africa” but not the Koran or “the rise of radical Islam.” But Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Cultures Ali S. Asani finds Douthat??s mind just a tad narrow...