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...Ross Douthat...
Blockbusters like Good Will Hunting and Legally Blonde and books like “Privilege,” by Ross G. Douthat ’02, cater to broad public curiosity about what it is actually like to be a Harvard student. Whether factual or just fictitiously fun, it seems that any explanation as to what really happens behind the University’s nearly 400 year-old walls can grab at least some attention. But when the spotlight shines on Harvard’s tepid historical exclusivity and even its more meritocratic modern-day place in America, it often...
...Douthat also criticized Harvard’s General Education curriculum and its Core Curriculum predecessor for not focusing on the “great canon of western thought...
According to Douthat, political polarization leads many to shy away from choosing specific authors or texts as a required part of a curriculum out of a fear of showing a bias for one culture over another...
...Douthat also urged students to take more classes in the humanities—especially those in western civilization, history, and literature...