This is the first time in a long time (if ever!) that when I saw the email for this post and didn’t recognize the name of the sender and saw the subject headline and almost deleted it because I thought that I had somehow ended up on some sort of strange political fundraising mailing list.
Frenchman here, this good monsieur convinced me at "snails sautéed in Normande velouté". Elite schools wouldn't be the same without such a snobbish touche française!
U.S. athletics scholarships are another example of American exceptionalism. How else is an outstanding fencer with great social skills and modest intellect supposed to get a decent education? Honestly, could anyone argue against giving people with too much money already, more money so little Johnny can attend Stanford? What about the basketball phenom who can make the school millions at same time attracting more phenoms to make more millions for an activity whose connection to academics is thinner than a human hair.
How else can a sad little nobody like Chelsea Clinton go to Stanford? No intellect, no social skills, no prowess— won’t someone think of the children of the well-connected?
We cannot - we must not - allow our best fencers to be swallowed up by glamorous European micro-states!
Fencing is an easy target for these sorts of jabs. Aim higher.
This is the first time in a long time (if ever!) that when I saw the email for this post and didn’t recognize the name of the sender and saw the subject headline and almost deleted it because I thought that I had somehow ended up on some sort of strange political fundraising mailing list.
Absolutely hilarious. Could almost feel the self absorption from the “author” dripping through. Well done, Jeff.
Fencing is for the elites. Americans are mostly common people. Very common. So let the elites support fencing and, while we're at it, Lacrosse.
Frenchman here, this good monsieur convinced me at "snails sautéed in Normande velouté". Elite schools wouldn't be the same without such a snobbish touche française!
U.S. athletics scholarships are another example of American exceptionalism. How else is an outstanding fencer with great social skills and modest intellect supposed to get a decent education? Honestly, could anyone argue against giving people with too much money already, more money so little Johnny can attend Stanford? What about the basketball phenom who can make the school millions at same time attracting more phenoms to make more millions for an activity whose connection to academics is thinner than a human hair.
It's a perfect system.
How else can a sad little nobody like Chelsea Clinton go to Stanford? No intellect, no social skills, no prowess— won’t someone think of the children of the well-connected?
Now that I'm a paid subscriber, I just want to comment on a few of the posts that convinced me to become a paid subscriber
:)