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Millions of graduates voted Trump, wooed by his straight-talking materialism

Millions of graduates voted Trump, wooed by his straight-talking materialism

The horror, the horror! Kurtz’s last words in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness do no justice to the outcome. Even now, a week after the US presidential election, Georgetown University types wander ashen-faced like zombies. Hollowed-out shells of their former selves. Occasionally one congratulates me sardonically for having called the result correctly in a previous Times […] … learn more→