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...Legitimizing Hate” in the March 5 issue of the Crimson, the Hispanic Business Magazine article “Business Diversity Elites?? was said to have been published months before a blog posted on National Review Online by Mark Krikorian. This article was, in fact, published two days before Krikorian’s post...
...shortly after the failure of Washington Mutual Bank, Mark Krikorian found a press release issued months earlier by the bank that celebrated its inclusion on a list of “Business Diversity Elites?? compiled by Hispanic Business magazine. On NRO, Krikorian posted the release with the sneering headline, “Cause and Effect?”, implying that the bank failed because of its minority employees...
...know that Howard Dean loves the Democratic Party, and that most other superdelegates only want the best for the Party. But what does it say when Party elites?? votes count so much more than the average voter’s? Moreover, I worry, maybe too cynically, about corruption in this process: What is to stop Senators Obama or Clinton from hinting at a Cabinet position in return for that last, tie-breaking superdelegate...
...fact is that today’s America suffers from a serious economic imbalance; decades of untrammeled corporate greed and apathetic conservative government have produced a nation where a small group of wealthy people live in astonishing luxury while everyone else hangs by a shoestring. These elites??insurance companies are just a small example, alongside media barons, oil tycoons, financial wizards, and D.C. power brokers—have taken control of our government and our economy to no one’s benefit but their own, and in the process they are destroying the fabric of American society...
What meritocracy misses are the ways Harvard and so many other schools deepen social inequalities. Professional administrators, faculty, and members of economic, political and cultural elites??not the whole school and surrounding community—make the vast majority of the school’s decisions. Routinely putting decisions in the hands of a few simultaneously consolidates the power, skills, knowledge, connections, wealth, and entitlement of a few individuals and at the same time takes that power away from most. The less most people are directly involved in the decisions that affect their lives, the less interested they...