![]() Yale Law School is undeniably an elite institution, the undisputed number one school in a field that is intensely (and toxically) hierarchical. But there is one thing that Vance nails: the culture of credentialism. ![]() There are a few details that seem unfamiliar to me-I can’t recall attending a single one of the “cocktail receptions and banquets” that Vance describes as the school’s social rituals-but then again I was thirty-nine and married with a child when I started law school. Photo by Shmitra at the English language Wikipedia ( CC BY-SA 3.0) I don’t feel like adding to the torrent of instanalysis of the “white working class,” however, so I’ll just comment on the description of Yale Law School-which, in the book, serves the dramatic function of introducing the author to the Elite. ![]()
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