The Blindness of the Elites

The Blindness of the Elites

The New York Times writer David Brooks wrote an extraordinarily tin eared piece last weekend. It was about how hard it was to be young and privileged. His thesis was that kids who got into Ivy League schools now faced intense competition to get into the right clubs, get just the right summer internships and then nail down the right highly lucrative job. If you’re finding it hard to work up a lot of sympathy for these folks, I’m with you. But bec…