What's Wrong With America's 'Elites'?, by Laura Hollis | Creators Syndicate

Over the past few years, news items about events on college campuses have come to dominate headlines...And the stories are often negative, if not outright shocking. 

• ...Across the country, Jewish students describe themselves as "living in a climate of hatred and fear" amid dramatic increases in antisemitic conduct, threats, slurs and actual violence...
• This week, Stanford University sophomore Theo Baker published "The War at Stanford" in The Atlantic, in which he describes how the Israel-Hamas war has affected his campus...
• In 2017, author Charles Murray's scheduled talk at Middlebury College was interrupted by a mob that later physically attacked him and his faculty host Allison Stanger. Stanger's hair was pulled so hard by a protester that she suffered a concussion...

So who are these "elite"?

Rasmussen explains that they are the top 1% of the population. They make more than $150,000 a year. They live in densely populated urban areas. They have not only college but postgraduate degrees. And large numbers of them "went to one of 12 elite schools."...

Not only does this group think it's acceptable to cheat to win an election, but 70% believe there is too much individual freedom in the United States, and an equal number trusts the government — which, of course, they control...
What's going on at our most prestigious and exclusive universities? 

• How have they produced generations of amoral, condescending authoritarians? 

And how do we put a stop to it?...