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Bruce Miller's avatar

Wondering if I'm alone in thinking that the discussion would have been more focused and interesting if limited to Professor Christakis. The video of him calmly confronting the mob of deranged children was an example of intellectual bravery barely followed in our craven and debauched universities today. People pay ungodly amounts to send their children to places such as Yale. The money is well spent if the children get exposure to professors such as Christakis. On the other hand, placing them among the lunatics depicted on the tape is akin to child abuse. Given the passage of years, I could only wonder what became of the screeching young harridan who was assailing Christakis. She's now old enough to be a wife and mother. If she is, and hasn't had a transformational awakening, God help us. But it would explain much about the current state of our politics.

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Sgd427's avatar

at least from my experience growing up in an upper middle class town that sent a lot of HS grads to Ivies, people don't send their kids to schools like this for the education. They do it for the networking/opportunities/prestige factor. It's the "US News and World Report" effect

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