Education

On Sunday, Nicholas Kristof’s column addressed the “second most remarkable thing” about Obama’s election: the country will welcome into the White House “an open, out-of-the-closet, practicing intellectual.”   That’s right, folks, a member of the professoriat has achieved the highest post in the land (and no, I don’t mean the Presidency of Harvard, sorry Drew Faust).   Does Barack’s election mean that it might start to be cool to be …