Shamus Khan, chair of the sociology department at Columbia University, is one of the best thinkers alive about elites, and also a close friend from high school. I am absolutely thrilled to be talking with him at the Klingenstein Center, Columbia’s school for independent school educators. We’ll be talking about boarding school, squash, and books, but also specifically about the creation of whiteness at elite institutions, and what it means for people of color and white people to try to live up to those ideals.