{"id":11333,"date":"2018-08-14T10:59:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T17:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11333"},"modified":"2018-08-14T10:59:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T17:59:24","slug":"the-deflation-of-the-academic-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-deflation-of-the-academic-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deflation of the Academic Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">T<\/span>rumpism is sometimes derided as an updated know-nothingism that rejects expertise and the input of credentialed expertise. Supposedly, professionals who could now save us tragically have their talent untapped as they sit idle at the Council of Foreign Relations, the economics Department at Harvard, or in the offices of the Brookings Institution \u2014 even as Trump\u2019s wheelers and dealers crash and burn, too proud, too smelly, or too ignorant to call in their betters to come in and save Trump from himself.<\/p>\n<p>But do the degreed classes, at least outside math, the sciences, engineering, and medicine, merit such esteem anymore?<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Scaramucci\u2019s Harvard Law degree seemed no guarantee of the Mooch\u2019s circumspection, sobriety, or good judgement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/08\/academic-brand-deflated-elite-degrees-worth-less\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Trumpism is sometimes derided as an updated know-nothingism that rejects expertise and the input of credentialed expertise. Supposedly, professionals who could now save us tragically have their talent untapped as they sit idle at the Council of Foreign Relations, the economics Department at Harvard, or in the offices of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[79,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2WN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12477,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-fragility-of-the-woke\/","url_meta":{"origin":11333,"position":0},"title":"The Fragility of the Woke","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 9, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review A TikTok video that recently went viral on social media showed a recent Harvard graduate threatening to stab anyone who said \u201call lives matter.\u201d In her melodrama, she tried to sound intimidating with her histrionics. 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