I was reading Andrew Sullivan’s “Gay Culture” during breakfast this morning, and I decided that I should spit out my half-digested ideas on Elite Culture. It’s a topic that has been on the back of my mind for two weeks as I’ve read Brooks’ column on cultural capital, the Atlantic Monthly issue on inequity and college admissions, the New Republic’s issue on cronyism, and the fight within the right on the Miers appointment. It’s also been on the back of my mind as we try to assimilate into our blue collar town.

I’ll try to be brief as I pull together these disparate thoughts, but we’ll see how it goes.

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