elitism

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/27/2022
  

  Manchin's Self-Proclaimed "Principled" Acts Mean Shunning His Constituents

  by Ashley Steenson

  Joe Manchin's torpedoing of the Build Back Better legislation reflects a historically prominent principle, though maybe not one the Senator would like to acknowledge: contempt for most of his constituents.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10/7/2021
  

  Abolish Legacy Admissions

  by Ronald J. Daniels

  "Legacy preference is immobility written as policy, preserving for children the same advantages enjoyed by their parents. It embodies in stark and indefensible terms inherited privilege in higher education."

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• SOURCE: BIG by Matt Stoller
  4/25/2021
  

  Break Up the Ivy League Cartel

  by Sam Haselby

  The incredible wealth of Ivy League and other elite universities, combined with their ever-dwindling acceptance rates, suggests that contemporary meritocracy is working to reproduce a tiny economic and political elite at the expense of democracy. 

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• 9/8/19
  

  The Democratic Presidential Candidates’ Ivy League Problem – and the Party Divide It Signals

  by Daniel K. Williams

  Every Democratic presidential nominee for the past thirty years has had a degree from either Harvard or Yale. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/19/19
  

  How Low-Income Students Fare at Elite Colleges

  by Clint Smith

  Unwritten rules underlie all of elite-university life—and students who don’t come from a wealthy background have a hard time navigating them.

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• 1/5/18
  

  Should Historians Be Pundits? An interview with Ibram X. Kendi, Nicole Hemmer and Michael Kazin

  They appeared on a panel convened to discuss Moshik Temkin's controversial NYT op ed, "Historians Shouldn’t Be Pundits."

• SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
  5-6-13
  

  Northern Ireland peace agreement flawed and elitist, says historian

  The Good Friday Agreement is "flawed and elitist" but will not be derailed by the forthcoming 1916 commemorations or the threat from dissidents, according to historian Professor Paul Bew.The Queen's University academic told the 20th annual Burren Law School in Co Clare that the Agreement "ended the Cold War" within the Island of Ireland."The Good Friday Agreement was an elitist, top down process which explains its inadequacies but also explains why it continues to work," said Prof Bew. "This (the Agreement) is a stable process... it is perfectly clear what the rules of the game are."...