Without a doubt, brilliant minds have attended and taught at Harvard, Yale and the rest. But so have many mediocrities whose rich parents hired consultants to turn their offspring into the perfect packages these institutions want. That meant tutors to ensure high scores alongside some angle, such as prowess in a sport or carefully selected do-gooding.

There is considerable harm being done by evangelicals because of their devotion to Donald Trump.

His endorsement of a tweet helped give new life to old antisemitic tropes.

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy’s work at the White House has had an outsize and lasting effect on how restoration projects are chosen and paid for, how state dinners are staged and how visitors experience the White House. Every first family that followed has been influenced by her approach to decor and preservation.

If the stress is really rooted in the lack of child care, that is a matter for public policy. And if the unfairness is that both mother and father have jobs, but the woman ends up doing most of the cleaning and child care, that’s something to be ironed out between the two of them.

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We can never forget the extent to which we ourselves, through determined inculcation in our own schools, have made students from right here in the United States haters of Israel and the West. Altogether, we’ve created the conditions for the ongoing cataract of anti-Israel agitation, coupled with outright antisemitism and harassment of Jews, that shows no signs of abating.

She has publicly made clear that Donald Trump would not be her choice for the Republican nomination. But she has been silent on the far more critical issue: is he fit to hold office at all?