Joel Stein
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“Only about half of Americans now think colleges do any good, and more than half of Republicans say they have a negative effect on society.”
― In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You are Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book
― In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You are Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book
“In most of the operations of the mind each American appeals only to the individual effort of his own understanding…they are constantly brought back to their own reason as the most obvious and proximate source of truth. It is not only confidence in this or that man which is destroyed, but the disposition to trust the authority of any man whatsoever. Everyone shuts himself up tightly within himself and insists upon judging the world from there. Alexis de Tocqueville,
Democracy in America,”
― In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You are Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book
Democracy in America,”
― In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You are Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book
“A 2017 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute found that 48 percent of Republicans thought there was “a lot of discrimination” against Christians, while only 27 percent of them thought there was “a lot of discrimination” against black people; 43 percent thought there was a lot of discrimination against whites.”
― In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You are Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book
― In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You are Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book
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