The Trouble with Pinker's Argument about 'The Trouble With Harvard'

By Cathy Davidson. According to Steven Pinker in his recent New Republic article about"The Trouble with Harvard," the most read article in the history of that magazine is a previous article also mostly about the trouble with Harvard, William Deresiewicz’s “Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League.”    Like all the things we most covet and scorn, Harvard is the object of our national fascination, even obsession. More...