The EAs were too “woke” and too concerned with appearances.
The EAs were too “woke” and too concerned with appearances.


“The rationalist utopia is a power trip,”
Nate Silver • On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
The age of the Well-Bred Man was vanishing. The age of the Cognitive Elite was here.
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
Would we necessarily say that government, civic life, the media, or high finance work better now than in the mid-20th century? We can scorn the smug WASP blue bloods from Groton and Choate—and certainly their era’s retrograde views of race and gender—but their leadership helped produce the Progressive movement, the New Deal, victory in World War II... See more
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
This, I believe, is what happened to many of America’s key institutions in the mid-to-late 2010s. They got stupider en masse because social media instilled in their members a chronic fear of getting darted. The shift was most pronounced in universities, scholarly associations, creative industries, and political organizations at every level (nationa... See more