By D.T. Max 3/07/05 12:00am

Give It the Old College Try: Mining Harvard’s Meaning

Harvard Rules: The Struggle for the Soul of the World’s Most Powerful University, by Richard Bradley. HarperCollins, 400 pages, $25.95.

Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class, by Ross Gregory Douthat. Hyperion, 304 pages, $24.95.

What is Harvard that we are mindful of it? That’s the question raised by Privilege: Read More

By Sheelah Kolhatkar 3/07/05 12:00am

A Pisher’s Privilege

On the brink of the publication of his first book, a memoir-cum-sociology-tract called Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class, Ross Gregory Douthat was looking earnest and somber in tan cords and a navy V-necked sweater, lunching on a B.L.T. at a restaurant called Dishes near the Washington, D.C., offices of The Atlantic Read More