OVER the last year or two, I've given myself a crash course on social criticism -- wonderfully grim and eloquent books by Bell, Ehrenreich, both Packers (Vance and George) and various "mass culture" theorists of the '50s. I hope to get into some of them over the next few months.One of the best of them is Christopher Hayes' Twilight of the Elites: American After the Meritocracy. I'm often stirred … [Read more...]
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