Why are there so many rich students at elite universities?
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Why are there so many rich students at elite universities?
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Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.
~ H. L. Mencken
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via The New York Times:
Why U.S. Test Scores Are in a ‘Generation-Long Decline’
by Claire Cain Miller, Francesca Paris and Sarah Mervosh
published on May 13, 2026
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J.P. Tedrow here. Like Outkast? I very much enjoyed reading Dirty South: Outkast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop by Ben Westhoff. The book was published by Chicago Review Press back in May 2011. It’s a good read. I recommend this book.
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A system can tell you where a man is. It cannot tell you what his death will mean for a nation. Such systems are trained on behavior, not on meaning — they can track what an adversary does but not what he fears, honors, remembers or would die for.
~ Yonatan Touval via The New York Times
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