Top of the Class - The American Conservative

Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School, Shamus Khan, Princeton University Press, 248 pages

Top of the Class - The American Conservative Top of the Class Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School, Shamus Khan, Princeton University Press, 248 pages Austin Bramwell Mar 13, 2012 8:42 AM Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School , Shamus Khan, Princeton University Press, 248 pages Status has always been hereditary. A warlord establishes a dynasty; a merchant buys a title; a politician gets his son elected to office. The desire to pass power, rank, and wealth down to one’s descendants is a universal that human institutions have always flexed

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