In William Deresiewicz’s “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life,” a senior professor at Yale who also attended the school decades ago as an ...
William Deresiewicz's "excellent sheep" often find themselves at the nexus of money, politics, and power. Why do they do so much harm? There are perhaps no better exemplars of the products of our ...
Over the years, I’ve come to believe that lack of ambition coupled with a congenital lazy streak saved me from becoming one of William Deresiewicz’s “Excellent Sheep.” A child of the upper-middle ...
William Deresiewicz’s July article for The New Republic, “Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League,” launched a insightful, heated debate about the nature and meaning of education. In the newest edition ...
Ex-Yale professor William Deresiewicz published an essay called “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education” in the summer of 2008 that struck a societal nerve. How could attending Harvard, Yale, ...
This book, in many ways, is a letter to my twenty-year-old self. It talks about the kinds of things I wish that someone had encouraged me to think about when I was going to college -- such as what the ...
William Deresiewicz is an underappreciated essayist and thinker, not to mention a literary critic whose acumen is comparable to James Wood’s. After writing an essay he felt was doomed to obscurity, ...
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