NYT reaching ever farther to define Mamdani as an Other
A wonderful distillation of the David Brooks/Timesian pov: in the center of western capitalism, college professors are the elite.
As a New Yorker I can tell you this feels true at least at street level: no one wants to cross the PhD mafia. The cops respect academia, the media defer to them, and the Wall Street traders live in fear of the upper west side cocktail conversations that can make or break a career.
u/Expert-Loquat2019 — 3 days ago