Finally, a culture that rewards big personal accomplishments over smaller social ones threatens to create a cohort of narcissists

Just as the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans gobble up a disproportionate share of the nation’s economic resources and rejigger our institutions to funnel them benefits and power, so too do our educational 1 percent suck up a disproportionate share of academic

opportunities, and threaten to reconfigure academic culture so that it both mimics and serves their values