Comments on: Elitism Redux

By: Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator

Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:01:01 +0000

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By: Moe Lane

Moe Lane — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:33:22 +0000

I don't know what's worse: the fact that you linked favorably to something Atrios wrote, or the fact that I agree that what he wrote made sense.

Hell, it wasn't even vile.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 12:58:45 +0000

Sure. But the success of the Ivies is mostly in identifying and attracting the best and the brightest, not in creating them.

By: sammler

sammler — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 12:53:03 +0000

I think that the Ivies and comparably elite schools do attract the bulk of talent at the very top -- look at Stanford's incredible run of consecutive Nobel prizes, for example. People falsely generalize from these highly publicized facts to the erroneous idea that _all_ Ivy graduates are intelligent or accomplished, which is manifestly not the case.