Elitism

My Struggles With Anti-Intellectualism

Paul Stoller | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Philosophy, Critical Thinking, Education, College, Pragmatism, Anti-Intellectualism, Anthropology, Elitism, Higher Education, College News
Paul Stoller

"Can do" pragmatism was the fuel of America prosperity. But that pragmatism was reinforced with an abiding respect for knowledge and critical thinking. It's hard to do anything in a place devoid of new ideas, a place where dreamers are discouraged from dreaming.

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Elitism in American Energy Decisions

Michael Greenberg | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Elitism, Obama Elitism, Keystone XL Pipeline, Obama Keystone Xl, Keystone Xl Protest, Climate Change, Teen News
Michael Greenberg

Cultural elitism is unfortunately still a prevalent force, and Keystone XL is just one example out of many of America disrespecting less-developed parts of the world to meet its hunger for power.

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Are You An Elitist For Judging The Moms On 'Toddlers & Tiaras'?

Babble.com | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Reality Television, Television, Toddlers and Tiaras, Toddlers and Tiaras Controversy, Elitism, Classism, Class, Parents-Moms, Parents News
Babble.com

I'm well aware that my judging the pageant moms is hypocritical. After all, I watch the show. But is it classist?

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Hobnobbing With Hobgoblins

Arnie Reisman | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Politics, Leadership, Consistency, Conservatives, Comedy, Elitism, Rick Santorum Snob, Snob, Comedy News
Arnie Reisman

Conservatives want government out of their lives but they want it to say who should marry whom, what you can or cannot do with your body, when life begins and whether or not you should have health care. This reveals a national trait: Americans have a love-hate relationship with consistency.

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Leaked Copy of Romney's Ohio Speech Surfaces

Gilbert King | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Satire, Comedy, Politics, Ohio, Rick Santorum, Gop, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney Wealth, Mitt Romney Elitism, Mitt Romney 2012, Elitism, Political Satire, Political Humor, Comedy News
Gilbert King

Trust me, if it weren't for the Constitution, firing President Obama would be easy as sailing a multihull catamaran in Christmas winds off Tortola, as we like to say around the Romney household.

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Just How Elitist Are You? Murray's 'How Thick Is Your Bubble' Quiz

Jared Bernstein | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Charles Murray, Elitism, Coming Apart, Elitest Test, Barack Obama Elitist, Coming Apart Elitism, Charles Murray Coming Apart, Culture News
Jared Bernstein

This being Murray, cultural gaps loom large as well. His hypothesis is that elites and others are growing ever farther apart along cultural dimensions, and the book even has a test so you can see how out of touch you are. Here it is with my answers.

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The Savior Santorum: The Rise of White Male Religious Elitism

Aaron Anson | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Abortion, Women's Rights, Franklin Graham, Women's Issues, President Obama, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Preaching, Contraception, Elitism, Birth Control, Evangelicals, Rick Santorum 2012, Religion News
Aaron Anson

Who are these religious elitists with the audacity to question the faith of others, based on their indoctrinated theology? These supposed leaders are waging battles outside the church they've not yet won inside the church.

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This House Believes Fashion is Elitist

The Cambridge Union Society | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Style, Vogue, UK Universities and Education, UK Universities, Vogue Magazine, Elitism, Fashion, Clothes, Cambridge University, UK Style News
The Cambridge Union Society

This week, Maria Dimitrova and Holly Stevenson give the student perspective on the motion which some of the greats of the fashion world will debate at...

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The Other Trouble With 'Elites'

Sabrina Stevens | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Politics, Elitism, Education, Education Reform, Class, Denver, David Sirota, Self-Governance, Education News
Sabrina Stevens

I'm definitely not naive enough to discount the role of profit, self-interest, etc., in others' motivations, but I believe that most people want what's best for others, even if we disagree on what it takes for that to happen.

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The Debate Over Elite Schools and Elite Jobs

Robert Teitelman | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Ivy League, Robert Teitelman, Elitism, Elite, Employers, Ivy League Schools, Job Recruiting, Business-Recruiting, Lauren Rivera, College Admissions, Elite Schools, Business News
Robert Teitelman

If you accept the research that higher socioeconomic status is the single greatest factor in academic performance, then Rivera is outlining a process that not only bakes in inequality, but deepens it over time.

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Television Without Millionaires?

Jack Healey | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: 99%, Television, Elitism, Income Inequality, Occupy Movement, Occupy, 1%, Millionaires, A Day Without Art, Andy Warhol, Occupy Millionaires, Aids Crisis, Occupy Wall Street, World AIDS Day, Day Without Millionaires, Culture News
Jack Healey

The idea is simple. What would happen if we broadcast an entire day's programming without a single millionaire being visible on the screen?

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Johann's Industry Must be Judged Equally Guilty

Mark Donne | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: The Telegraph, Elitism, Johann Hari, Media News, The Independent, The Times, Oxbridge, The Guardian, Media News
Mark Donne

Reporters and commentators writing on issues including social deprivation and inequality who have lived and breathed social deprivation and inequality; good heavens, what would that look like?

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Beefs: Anthony Bourdain vs. Paula Deen: A Recap

Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Anthony Bourdain, Andrew Zimmern, Food Network, Anthony-Bourdain-Paula-Deen-Feud, Paula Deen, Food Snobbery, Frank Bruni, Elitism, Jane Black, Anthony Bourdain Paula Deen, Food News

A lot of gauntlets have been thrown these past few weeks in the world of food criticism. Alan Richman used his monthly GQ review to rant about the sta...

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Frank Bruni: Unsavory Culinary Elitism

NYTimes.com | FRANK BRUNI | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Anthony Bourdain, Unsavory Culinary Elitism, Paula Deen, Frank Bruni, Elitism, Food Network, Culinary Elitism, Fried Chicken, Food News

Anthony Bourdain, the part-time chef and full-time celebrity, has a tongue on him. It’s the sharpest knife in his set. He has used it to carve up ve...

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Obama's Elitism, Republican Principled Ignorance and the Debt Ceiling Debate

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Debt Ceiling, Elitist, House of Representatives, Repubilcan Party, Columbia University, President Obama, Harvard University, Cut Cap and Balance, John Boehner, University of Chicago, President Barack Obama, Speaker Boehner, Elitism, Barack Obama, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

Should the U.S. not increase its debt ceiling, the country will likely face higher interest rates, another spike in joblessness, inability to pay basic expenses, and, almost inevitably, higher taxes in the not too distant future.

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Krugman on the Policy Elites

Robert Teitelman | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Politics, New York Times, Elitism, Paul Krugman, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Business News
Robert Teitelman

Paul Krugman launches an attack Monday in the New York Times on what the headline of his column calls "The Unwisdom of Elites." Well, I can agree with...

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Gregory Beyer

The Elites Who Killed Osama Bin Laden

HuffingtonPost.com | Gregory Beyer | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: John McCain, Elite, Navy Seals, Pakistan, Sarah Palin, Elections 2012, Elitism, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

A curious word crept into the dialogue this week, as news outlets fed the voracious public appetite for every last detail of the secret raid that kill...

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Jason Linkins

Allen West Seems To Think That Washingtonians Are Doing Really Well, Financially

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Beltway Myopia, Allen West, Washington DC, Elitism, Eat the Press, Video, Politics News

They said the Tea Party lawmakers would never be co-opted by the establishment elite! And yet, Adam Serwer captures Florida Tea Party-styley Congressm...

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What the Rally for Sanity and Obama Have in Common and It's Not Politics

Lisa Solod | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Political Rhetoric, Education, Elitism, Obama, Obama Elitism, Rally for Sanity, Politics News
Lisa Solod

On the bus ride home to the Shenandoah Valley with some of the nearly two hundred people who made the hours-long journey to the Rally for Sanity, ...

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DIY U, Educational Access, and the New Elitism

Anya Kamenetz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bell Curve, Elitism, Charles Murray, College, Tea Party, Global Warming, For-Profit Colleges, College News
Anya Kamenetz

Either we use technology to bend the cost curve in higher education, or we resign ourselves to never having enough of it.

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Start Making Sense

Adam Neiman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Wealth Vanishes, U.S. Economy, Elitism, Trade, Barack Obama, Middle Class, American Manufacturing, Politics News
Adam Neiman

The great conundrum and tragicomedy of American politics is the way the PhDs attempt to champion the interests of working people while well-paid faux populists serve the interests of the MBAs.

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On Marty Peretz' Bigotry. And Elitism. And Incoherence.

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marty Peretz, Islam, Elitism, Bigotry, Islamophobia, Anti-Muslim, Free Speech, Public Opinion, New York Times, Muslim, Europe Muslims, Politics News
Jonathan Weiler

It has become a staple of an increasingly openly bigoted movement in America to insist on their right to bigotry while simultaneously expressing outrage at anyone who actually calls them on it.

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An Ode to Black Women and a Fair, Firm Message to ALL Others

BlackAndBrownNews | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leadership, Economics, Black America, Obama, American, Sharon D. Toomer, Media, Race, America, Culture, Politics, Sexism, Black Women, Shirley Sherrod, Elitism, Classism, Elected Officials, blackandbrownnews.com, Sharon Toomer, Bbn, Society, Politics News
BlackAndBrownNews

As a Black woman in America, I have never known a time in my life when I have felt more unsafe, vulnerable and unprotected. This acute sense of insecu...

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Same-Sex Marriage Ruling Reinforces National Backlash

Ernest Istook | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Arizona Immigration, Deficit Spending, 2010 Elections, Government Spending, Immigration, U.S. Constitution, Same-Sex Marriage, Immigration Reform, Marriage, California Gay Marriage, Tea Party Movement, Elections, Courts, Voters, Same Sex Marriage, Elitism, Arizona Immigration Law, Justice, Constitution, Tea Party, Gay Marriage, Elections 2010, Politics News
Ernest Istook

When a court reverses the voters' decision, it reinforces the tidal wave of disgust at political elites who run roughshod over the will of the people.

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Choosing Sides in a 1930s-like Economy

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fear, Poverty, Muhammad Yunus, Economy, 9/11, 1930s, Pinochet, Fascism, Fear George W Bush, Anti-Globalization, Income Gap, Cagoule, Elitism, Resistance, World War II, Milton Friedman, Inequality, Business News
Vivian Norris

If you are truly for freedom and prosperity, it must be for all humans, not just a select spoiled few. Elect people like Elizabeth Warren to office, fight for people who truly represent everyone's best interests.

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