Opinion: A dean at Harvard tells graduates all success stems from inherited privilege and chance, but that doesn’t explain why today’s business titans and their predecessors have accomplished so much, writes HMDatMI
It’s college graduation season, when high-profile commencement speakers are scrutinized as barometers of academia’s ideological leanings. A speech by Harvard College’s dean this year suggests you learn more when a school bureaucrat articulates the worldview that shapes campus culture than when a celebrity jets in, collects an honorarium and leaves.
Rakesh Khurana opened his Class Day speech to graduating seniors with a summary of the changes at Harvard over the previous four years. He omitted two in which he played a central...
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