https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/08/05/ivy-league-dullards-or-apocalypse-now/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 03:00:49 -0400<![CDATA[On the surface, the Presidential Campaign is shaping up as a battle between two Ivy League Dullards (as one who went to Dartmouth and Yale, I can promise you I&#8217;ve run into more than a few). An Ivy education is no guarantee of intellectual prowess, especially when you get into the lower end of the class rankings. We have long heard this about Bush, the ne&#8217;er-do-well son who had some problem getting into law school and ended up at Harvard Business. But now Kerry is being questioned. Boston College Law School, currently ranked twenty-nine on the US News scale (yes, I know its shortcomings), is quite a comedown from number one ranked Yale Law (attended, with distinction, by Bill and Hill). Several explanations come to mind for this relative academic decline (one of them unlikely to be a &#8220;economic need to go to night school&#8221;), but we will have to wait for the candidate (or his proxies) to tell us. But never mind. Kerry may not be the next Walter Russell Mead when it comes to scholarship, but he is a war hero, right?]]>Thu, 05 Aug 2004 07:49:05 -0400<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2004/08/05/ivy-league-dullards-or-apocalypse-now-n204219