Last week, likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney blamed President Obama’s policies on his close relationship with Harvard. Many pointed out that Romney has a closer association with Harvard than Obama, having spent more time there earning graduate degrees.
The Harvard Crimson wrote an editorial criticizing Romney and Republicans for their anti-Harvard rhetoric:
It speaks to the power of the extreme right in today’s Republican party that trash-talking academic achievement is de rigeur even for candidates who hail from Massachusetts, received two Harvard degrees, and are supposedly members of the Republican establishment. This is not simply anti-elitism, but anti-intellectualism. In an age when the nation’s problems are increasingly complex, requiring the kind of expertise that a good education provides, we cannot afford to mock those who pursue one.
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