Michael Lind Makes the Case for Economic Populism
The Good Fight
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The Different Types of Management Elites in the United States
David Frum: Why is it that this group seems to be both more deeply influential on society today and perhaps more out of touch with ordinary people today either than in the past? He says they lack two characteristics of a good ruling class which is what they are. "They're not snobs," he says, "they don't acknowledge that they got to where they are." The idea of meritocracy is so strong that if you're born into the upper middle class then you think oh look what i did on the basis of my own efforts right why can't everybody be like me?" 'This is really a phenomenon of the post-cold war period having this puritanical elite which
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