How the Ivy League Broke America — The Atlantic

The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new. November 14, 2024 Updated at 12:00 p.m. ET on December 13, 2024 Follow The Atlantic Every coherent society has a social ideal—an image of what the superior person looks like. In America, from the late 19th century until sometime in the 1950s, the superior person was the Well-Bred Man. Such a man was born into one of the old WASP families that dominated the elite social circles on Fifth Avenue, in New York City; the Main Line, outside