Deep cuts from Pete Buttigieg’s Rhodie résumé.

Pete Buttigieg (Image: João Fazenda - The New Yorker)

In 1988, Spy magazine published a piece by Andrew Sullivan titled “All Rhodes Lead Nowhere in Particular.” In it, Sullivan made fun of the “bland eugenic perfection” of the typical Rhodes scholar. He was riffing on the old platitude “A Rhodes scholar is…