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...McAuley ends his essay with a discussion of a quotation from F. Scott Fitzgerald about the rich: “They are very different from you and me.” I will bring my own letter to a conclusion with a line from Hemingway written in response to the very one that McAuley quotes: “Yes, they have more money...
McAuley’s proposal would reify class divisions and obliterate any chance of cross-class interaction. Dismissing the entire issue with a misreading of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a relegation of the “rich” to impenetrable unknowability, is recipe for disaster. Difference exists, but in situations in which its danger can be minimized without any costs—like adhering to social norms of modesty—there is no excuse to perpetuate it. Not even out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness...
...social milieu. His parents are Midwestern Jews. (His father ran a Santa Monica steak house.) They saw life differently than the other kids' sophisticated dads and moms did. "My folks are from an older and very silent generation," Breitbart says. "My dad is as conservative as William F. Buckley was, but without the same presentation. He expressed his conservatism by working 16-hour days at the restaurant and never complaining...
...this afternoon, the majority of the material posted on the channel consisted of informational videos and recordings of public lectures and events. Overscheduled Harvard students can now watch John F. Kennedy Forum events as a means of procrastination...
Others said they thought the talk was inspirational. “It was great to hear how he thinks, to hear personal anecdotes, and what makes the man who comes up with such great economic discoveries tick,” said Samuel F. Himel...