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...first, his actions were only slightly strange—he gave me a troll doll at graduation; he commented that he liked my outfit; he asked my friend if I might be interested in him. Then things started to get weird. He called me everyday—five times??and left messages. He wrote a screenplay and read it to me—and then told me it was about me and him, and our future life together. Ok, so he wasn’t exactly sane. But the point is each and every...
While the non-conference game was lighthearted at times??after a Ram defender made a risky pass across the field near her own goal, her coach called from the sideline, much to the amusement of the crowd, “Don’t play that ball ever again, please!”—the match grew more animated and physical as the seconds ticked off the clock...
...send her to college. However, after she gave a speech on civil rights at a local meeting when she was 18 years old—“You know how 18-year-olds can sound off,” she would later recall in the New York Times??a white businessman in the audience was so impressed that he decided to finance her education...
...minorities is just one way that pundits create the false impression of a Republican middle (or working) class pitted against a liberal elite. And it isn’t just conservatives who are fudging the numbers. Earlier this year, in their series on class in America, the New York Times??which Brooks ridiculed before joining it as a columnist—told the story of Will Wilson, a man who “fits squarely into [New York City’s] middle class...
It’s pretty obvious why Brooks would want to repaint the world in redder hues, but the Times?? mistake doesn’t really fit their M.O. I don’t think the Times did this because they secretly have a Republican bias. That would be less frightening. I think the Times is just reflecting a popular fallacy: the myth of the affluent middle. Brooks and his cronies have been peddling their skewed statistics so long that even the liberal establishment has adopted them. Harvard students are uniquely susceptible to this kind of distortion...