"What Counts as 'Progressive' Here Almost Never Crosses Class Lines"

"This apparent dissonance may not feel like dissonance at all to a group raised comfortably under the neoliberal consensus. For most of our lifetimes, elites of both parties have embraced this economic approach, tinkering around its margins and justifying it with well-worn conservative appeals to meritocracy or liberal ones to diversity. For MBA students today, this lets us overlook our economy's yawning rich-poor gap and eroding upward mobility for the masses, as long as a diverse enough set of high achievers can climb the narrow ladders from top university classrooms to corner offices on Sand Hill Road or Wall Street."

John Benjamin at The New Republic argues that business schools "limit the vision of future leaders at a time when public dissatisfaction with business and its institutions makes our complacency a danger."