Alex MacGillis wonders if Elizabeth Warren's candidacy has been damaged by the academia backlash.

But when you're worrying about getting your kids through college in an era of $50,000 tuition, room and board, it is, shall we say, a little bit dissonant to have the rally for the little guy coming from a professor whose bottom line has benefited from those sky-high tuition rates…

Seriously, if Lizzie Warren, daughter of an Oklahoma City janitor, can't make the jump from the ivory tower, who can? Her troubles may be a sign that the academy's moat has grown wider than it ever intended.