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Institutions, acting in their own interest, are debasing America’s pool of young, human capital.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

Roiphe moves toward the way out with a quote from Chris Kraus’s novel “I Love Dick”: “Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our own debasement?”

From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2020

"Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our own debasement?"

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2017

Purists complain that free tuition and redbrick expansion are debasing everything old and dear in English higher learning.

From Time Magazine Archive

Therefore public slavery ruins them; useful works, in the field, in military service and in arts, except those which are debasing, are not cultivated, the few who do practise them doing so with much aversion.

From Ideal Commonwealths by More, Thomas, Sir, Saint