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Evangelicalism, Elites, and Excellence with Aaron Renn

Life and Books and Everything

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The Iron Law of Oligarchy

There's always going to be a small group of people who end up running anything. Even revolutions are almost always elite shaped endeavors. We have no more upper class code of the gentleman anymore, he says. There is no greater sign that our elite failed than the fact that we cannot oversee society with reliability.

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