Joseph Epstein, a retired English professor, wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal on December 12 of last year, criticizing Jill Biden for insisting that she be addressed as Dr. Biden, when her doctoral degree is in education, and not in medicine. The article sparked a furor, but not one that conservatives would have noticed. The liberal gentry class, who stake their self-image, and often their livelihoods, on their credentials and degrees rather than their achievements, treated this assault on Mrs. Biden as an assault on them all. Professor …

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