Snobs Aplenty in the Ivory Tower

Candace de Russy

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  • March 29, 2010

In an insightful commentary at In Character (subtitled "a journal of everyday virtues"), Naomi Schaefer Riley examines how academe evolved from Socrates's dictum, "All I know is that I know nothing," to Skip Gates's "You don't know who you are messing with."

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