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May 04, 2021
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James Carville praised Joe Biden for eschewing “faculty lounge politics” in an interview with Vox’s Sean Illing. That upset a lot of college professors, some of whom got very pedantic about faculty lounges, and many of whom seemed to understand Carville's point to be a criticism of college professors as excessively privileged.

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