[lbo-talk] The Death of a Nation (on Melissa Harris-Lacewell and The Nation magazine)

[Jesse Lemisch]

One error: you say, "one doesn't become an Associate Professor at Princeton 
University by virtue of being an idiot." Actually, it's a qualification, at 
Princeton and many other places.

Speaking of Princeton, lurking in the background of your piece (and crying 
to get out) is an issue about non-whites and upward mobility. In the 1950s, 
the great American Celebration in academe praised the American system for 
maintaining its stability by coopting and integrating a few members of 
minority, immigrant and dissident groups. This was nothing to take delight 
in, but we do now seem to be living through precisely that, particularly 
with products of the Ivies. Consider: Obama, Michelle (and down the road, 
little Sascha and Malatesta), Sotomayor, Michel Martin (the Harvard liberal 
who runs NPR's "Tell Me More").

Jesse Lemisch

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