Bari Weiss on elite institutions: "Give up the heroin needle of prestige."
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Brief Summary
The episode critiques elite education and advocates for creating new systems over reforming existing institutions.
Key points
- Radical vs. Reformer. The speaker discusses their shift from reformer to radical, emphasizing the need for new solutions.
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Transcript
And this is where I guess I'm more of a radical than a reformer. I think I began at the New York Times as a reformer believing that I could make a difference. And I God bless the people who are still trying to do that. I think there's a role for both. I think what has made me more of a radical, not politically, but just in terms of my posture has been that I have become someone who believes that the way to change those institutions is not to give money to those places or join the board of them or delude yourself with the idea that you can transform them from within.
It's to build new things. And in building new things and creating competition, it forces the other people to change. Give up the heroin needle of prestige. Rip it out of your arm immediately. Stop poisoning yourself, your families, and your children with the bankrupt notion that them getting into Harvard or Yale is more important than inculcating in them a sense of love of family, of country, and of all of the things we used to think were normal.
