Writing in 2018 — at possibly, or perhaps hopefully, the zenith of the reformist social revolution that has remolded American institutions over the past decade — New York Times columnist Ross Douthat posed a wistful counterfactual to the decline of the WASP establishment, speculating about how they might have kept “piety and discipline embedded in the culture of a place like Harvard, rather than the mix of performative self-righteousness and raw ambition that replaced them.”