Iqra’i

It’s a column day, so I don’t expect either of the posts currently in the pipes to come through until tomorrow (or, more likely, this
weekend). Instead, I have for you this morning documented evidence that Ivy League twentysomethings run Washington–or at least the Washington blogosphere.

The roster of contributors for the New Republic’s group blog, The Plank:

Jonathan Chait, Michigan ‘94 or ‘95
Jonathan Cohn, Harvard
Eve Fairbanks, Yale ‘05
Jamie Kirchick, Yale ‘06 (not on some news feeds)
Zvika Krieger, Yale ‘06
Dayo Olopade, Yale ‘07
Christopher Orr, BU
Cara Parks, Bard ‘05
Josh Patashnik, Harvard ‘07
Barron YoungSmith, Brown ‘06

I can’t find university information for John B. Judis, Laurence Lowe or Jason Zengerle. But that’s an Ivy majority regardless, and almost certainly a Yale plurality. (Another corner of the blogosphere we’ve taken over, though I doubt Poulos refers to the TNR kids when he plugs the “Yale mafia“…)

_{NOTE REGARDING THE TITLE: Krieger was actually in Scroll and Key, which most undergrads agree is better than Bones these days anyway. I don’t know about the rest of them, though given what he’s written I doubt Kirchick was in any…)}