BEGALA AWARD NOMINEE

“The extreme critics, like the Wall Street Journal, really pine for the days when there were few or no blacks at Harvard, when the undergraduates were largely stamped from the same upper-class and middle-class mold.” – Anthony Lewis, Slate. The unbearably pious Lewis thus accuses the Journal editors of being out and out racists. Perhaps he actually believes this. Perhaps he doesn’t. I’m not sure which is the more troubling explanation.