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...There is a strong suspicion these pigeons are ending up in pies rather than in races. They are probably being sold to Greek restaurants...
Harvard seems to have no intention of letting parents down who are already under the suspicion that their children lead a special privileged life here. They think we have no concerns or worries. Harvard appears to be an ideal world where so many people care about you that it is just like being at home with your parents. Surely they will not be disappointed in these couple of days, for the fooling process has already begun. Big events and snazzy teas are planned. And professors who hardly come out of their offices to greet students (they have more important things...
What Buchanan has discovered is the enduring power of the full populist litany: moral conservatism, rejection of political elites, fear of foreigners and--the one leg that Republicans have largely avoided--suspicion of concentrated economic power. In the late 19th century, populism arose out of economic upheaval, the rapid growth of large industry and powerful railroads that crushed small farmers and craftsmen. Their enemy was the "money power" of the Eastern establishment, the power of banks and big corporations. That and immigrants and the corruption of the political establishment. Sound familiar...
...Mandarins as being selectively compassionate--about racism and sexism and international human rights, but not crime or falling wages--and then creating remedies that affect everybody but them. The idea that (in the words of President Reagan) "government is the problem" is a proxy way of voicing the suspicion that the Mandarins are going to use government to assuage their consciences in a way that inconveniences everybody else...
...average than they do today. Gone are the self-deprecating gibes about his family business. "I guess you can say I came to the attention of management at an early age," Forbes would say with a grin. His winning quirkiness these days is shielded by a layer of wounded suspicion. When a voter in Earlham, Iowa, asked him whether he supported same-sex marriages, Forbes reacted like he had been punched in the stomach, stuttering "...I guess you could say I'm hopelessly conventional...