“Colleges are graduating a surfeit of young people who lack hard or even soft skills…They believe their degrees aren’t being adequately rewarded by the free market and blame capitalism.” Those are the words of Wall Street Journal columnist Alyssia Finley, and the bet here is she could be persuaded to be more optimistic.
Finley is writing about the New Yorkers who recently elected socialist Zohran Mamdani mayor. She’s channeling a popular view inside a conservative commentariat populated with elite-educated writers (Finley is a Stanford grad) that this time is different for the grads of Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Stanford (along with schools adjacent to those four). Supposedly the elite schools are no longer measuring up, thus Mamdani. But the complaint is as old as those schools, and probably older.
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