The market has spoken, we tell ourselves, essentially abdicating responsibility for this massive shift in the ambitions and direction of a generation of capable and well-meaning minds. Some graduates, of course, are convinced that they are involved in a broader project. But the mere association of oneself with an ideology or political movement—and resulting feeling of adjacency to engagement and proximity to action—too often masquerade as actual belief or thought. Results need to matter. As Henry Kissinger reminded us, nations “should be judged on what they did, not on their domestic
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