William Dere­siewicz on the foibles of the Ivy League elite:

Our best uni­ver­si­ties have for­got­ten that the rea­son they exist is to make minds, not careers.

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With respect to class, these schools are largely—indeed increasingly—homogeneous. Visit any elite cam­pus in our great nation and you can thrill to the heart­warm­ing spec­ta­cle of the chil­dren of white busi­ness­peo­ple and pro­fes­sion­als study­ing and play­ing along­side the chil­dren of black, Asian, and Latino busi­ness­peo­ple and professionals.