Friday, October 04, 2024

Academics

If Youre An Egalitarian, How Come You Educate At An Elite College?

Four years of football in spite of everything and one wonders what Thomas Jefferson would make of the well-educated citizenry now. By the early twenty first century, conservatives dismissed all sorts of issues they didn’t like as conspiracies of intellectual elites, even in the face of settled science. Creationism came roaring again in the 1980s and spiritual fundamentalists insisted that it’s taught in high school biology courses. The climate is altering too, however provided that you listen to the egg-headed scientific elites. If these on the proper objected to intellectuals for broadly cultural reasons—educational pedigree, coastal addresses, cosmopolitan tastes—Mills saw the facility elite as essentially anti-democratic.

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