From the New York Times, 23/12/12:
From a story about three poor women who made it to college and then dropped out: “Thirty years ago, there was a 31 percentage point difference between the share of prosperous and poor Americans who earned bachelor’s degrees . . . Now the gap is 45%. While both groups improved their odds of finishing college, the affluent improved much more, widening their sizable lead.”
From a story about planted review on Amazon.com: “The mystery novelist J. A. Konrath does not see anything wrong with an author indulging in chicanery. ‘Customer buys book because of fake review = zero harm,” he wrote on his blog.
Ross Douthat writing about Michael Bloomberg, “the
de facto spokesman of the self-consciously elite liberalism of the Acela
Corridor elite": “If you look at the specific proposals being offered by
Bloomberg and others . . . [some] might have an impact of gun violence, but
only at a cost: the popular idea of cracking down hard on illegal handguns, for
instance, would probably involve ‘stop and frisk’ on a huge scale.” Douthat states that the "establishment view" regards "sexual liberty as sacrosanct, and other liberites—from the freedoms of churches to the rights of gun owners—negotiable at best. It thinks that the elite should pay slightly higher taxes, and everyone else should give up guns, SUVs and Big Gulps and live more like, well, Manhattanites."
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