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Carol Platt Liebau: How Far Generalities Take You
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
Reacting to a David Brooks column that excitedly heralded the Obama administration as a "valedictocracy" stuffed with Ivy League credentials, Joseph Epstein has written an essay in The Weekly Standard characterizing the products of America's most elite universities as little more than A-grabbing, soulless mediocrities. In many cases, he's right. And I, too, took issue with Brooks' column ...
Le Trahison des Clercs
Unqualified Offerings —
Joseph Epstein has been a successful academic and a respected essayist, which makes him just the person to shit all over his own milieu in the name of the conservative assault on intellectual achievement. Western conservatives have long been obsessed with what they call the " ...
Obama’s best and brightest
Joanne Jacobs —
... . Joseph Epstein, who teaches good students at Northwestern, distrusts the type. They may be bright but they’re rarely deep, he writes. They’ll do anything to get ahead. To have been accepted at one of the top schools means that a child has done what he was told, followed instructions, kept his eye on the prize, played the game, and won. But does it mean much more? Speaking as a retired good student and the mother of a good student, I don’t think knowing how to play the academic game precludes genuine intellect though it doesn’t guarantee it either.
