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Title: Ted Cruz Is the World’s Most Condescending Elitist
Source: New York Magazine
URL Source: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence ... ivies-harvard-law-elitist.html
Published: Sep 23, 2014
Author: Dan Amira
Post Date: 2015-05-18 02:00:53 by GeorgiaConservative
Keywords: cruz, elitist, ivyleague
Views: 3505
Comments: 24

What Cruz doesn't mention is the next step in his father's American Dream: raising a son who would attend the very best schools in America and look down upon everyone else with a nauseating, unthinkable smugness. GQ reports:

The elite academic circles that Cruz was now traveling in began to rub off. As a law student at Harvard, he refused to study with anyone who hadn't been an undergrad at Harvard, Princeton, or Yale. Says Damon Watson, one of Cruz's law-school roommates: "He said he didn't want anybody from 'minor Ivies' like Penn or Brown."

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#4. To: GeorgiaConservative (#0)

The elite academic circles that Cruz was now traveling in began to rub off. As a law student at Harvard, he refused to study with anyone who hadn't been an undergrad at Harvard, Princeton, or Yale. Says Damon Watson, one of Cruz's law-school roommates: "He said he didn't want anybody from 'minor Ivies' like Penn or Brown."

The whole point of Harvard Law is elitism. And Harvard and Princeton and Yale are the most rigorous programs for law students with the most influential instructors.

I don't blame Cruz. This is how he ended up being praised by Tribe and Dershowitz (for his top legal ability though they hate his politics) and it is how he grabbed the brass ring of clerking for Chief Justice Rehnquist, another mark of his top legal scholarship. He actually was something of an expert on Rehnquist's legal philosophy and tendencies. At this level of legal studies, they study the Supremes, past and present, as much as they do the law itself.

It's an odd criticism to make of Cruz. The whole point of Princeton and Yale and Harvard is elitism. The minor Ivies are wannabes by comparison and you find this sort of thing written routinely in elitist circles.

What's next, criticizing Cruz for not taking time to tutor nighttime law school students at some city college? The horror.

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#10. To: TooConservative (#4)

Tribe and Dershowitz

Cruz has won the respect. Not an easy thing to do. Dershowitz claimed that Cruz was the most brilliant of all the students he taught in his lifetime. That is quite an accomplishment when it comes from an avowed extreme leftist.

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Cruz has won the respect. Not an easy thing to do. Dershowitz claimed that Cruz was the most brilliant of all the students he taught in his lifetime. That is quite an accomplishment when it comes from an avowed extreme leftist.

At this academic level, they distinguish between politics and the law. They could undoubtedly lecture us learnedly on the topic for hours without notes or preparation. These guys think about these issues structurally and with historical nuance.

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