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Alex Friedrich

Why working-class whites don't trust you Harvard types

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Columnist Ross Douthat says they feel left out of the elite college game.

If such universities are trying to create an elite as diverse as the nation it inhabits, they should remember that there’s more to diversity than skin color — and that both their school and their country might be better off if they admitted a few more R.O.T.C. cadets, and a few more aspiring farmers.