In his 1994 book The Revolt of the Elites, historian Christopher Lasch excoriated the American ruling class for its smug decadence and urged a return to the first principles of democracy. Writing in Law and Liberty, Rod Dreher concludes that the disintegrating forces Lasch identified have only worsened.
The default position of Western elites is to condemn one’s country as a hellscape of inequity, racism and injustice. Lionel Shriver sees grave geopolitical implications in this self-mortification. In the Spectator US
Steven Koonin, chief scientist of the Obama-era U.S. Department of Energy, has written a book disentangling actual climate science from elite opinion, finding that many claims about global warming and climate change are false. In the Wall Street Journal, Holman Jenkins relates how Koonin found that the real science suggests global warming will be gradual and limited.
Earlier this week former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd. Before the verdict was in, two prominent American politicians –
For seven years Andrew Gutmann sent his daughter to the US$54,000-a-year Brearley girls’ school in Manhattan. But Gutmann finally had enough of the school’s obsession
The default position of Western elites is to condemn one’s country as a hellscape of inequity, racism and injustice. Lionel Shriver sees grave geopolitical implications in this self-mortification. In the Spectator US
Steven Koonin, chief scientist of the Obama-era U.S. Department of Energy, has written a book disentangling actual climate science from elite opinion, finding that many claims about global warming and climate change are false. In the Wall Street Journal, Holman Jenkins relates how Koonin found that the real science suggests global warming will be gradual and limited.
Earlier this week former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd. Before the verdict was in, two prominent American politicians –
For seven years Andrew Gutmann sent his daughter to the US$54,000-a-year Brearley girls’ school in Manhattan. But Gutmann finally had enough of the school’s obsession
