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Economic analysis should be the first principle of authentic leftism. Phony, obfuscatory, elitist French theory became the ticket to ride for an amoral, overpaid, overpraised coterie that is incestuously interconnected from Berkeley and Duke to Princeton and Harvard. These days, its pashas pretend to be doing "cultural studies," an amateurish mishmash of this and that, without scholarly command of any area...
...habituate a certain level of participation. Abdi notes that the average gift is $35. But he concedes that the Gift Committee also includes a Special Committee to target graduates from wealthy families and get them to give more. "The who point is proportional five create an elitist atmosphere...
...there are strengths in her work as well. For one thing, Wolf is an engaging raconteur. Once at Swarthmore College she found herself berated by members of a seminar on women's studies as too elitist (she used compound sentences); too lax as an academic (she used endnotes instead of footnotes); too much of a sellout (she published with a mainstream press). Later, over beer and pizza, the same students turned out to be friendly and vulnerable, voicing their late-adolescent doubts about sexuality and self-esteem...
...idea, culture or human being can actually be better than another. One must believe in a consumerist approach to education: whatever the student wants is what the curriculum ought to be. Academics must recognize that ignorance of student wishes in favor of one's own scholarly interests is wickedly elitist...
...staff also takes a position that is unnecessarily dismissive of the concerns that working people have about the treaty. Such an elitist attitude cannot be condoned. And it is a subtle attempt to try to downplay the real harm NAFTA will do to America in the short...