Let's Not Exaggerate the Importance of the Ivies

by Conor Friedersdorf

A reader named Mark writes:

With regard to your comments on the limits of meritocracy, I agree with much of what you have to say (and I'm saying that as a Harvard Law graduate who used to work at big law firms, so maybe that's a statement against interest).  However, I have to critique what seems to be an apparent assumption of yours, namely that the "Northeast professional elite" runs the country, and therefore we really have to worry about how that elite is...