Ryan ArceJaeger
Professor Rivera
English 1C
September 22, 2016
Delete the Elite
In his article “Bring on the Elites!”, Joel Stein discusses his opinion on the
academic elite and how he believes there should be more of them. He begins by
acknowledging the gap between the academic elite and everyone else and argues that,
despite the fact that technology is seemingly shrinking that gap, the elites are still far
above everyone else so no one should consider themselves equal to an elite. Stein then
goes on to point out how he feels that to fill a position such as a supreme court justice,
