Making the click-through worthwhile: A TV show does well everywhere — except the coasts; a supposedly groundbreaking revelation in the special counsel's investigation; and a spat over criminal-justice reform.
Roseanne revival draws huge numbers
In his last book, The Revolt of the Elites, the late social critic Christopher Lasch chided an emerging class of Americans — educated people of decent means who lived on the coasts, made their living working with information rather than their hands, and participated in a global marketplace of transients — for trading socialism for the culture war. American elites couldn't bring themselves to embrace a genuinely left-wing economic program for fear that their status would be endangered, Lasch contended; they preferred to channel their political energy into ridiculing middle America, whose habits were so abhorrent. Published in 1994, it's a book that anticipated a lot of today's political discourse.
Lasch, obviously, was not the first social critic to suggest that there is an emerging class of American elites who have cloistered themselves off from the rest of the country. (A while ...
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|  | | | Theodore Kupfer Making the click-through worthwhile: A TV show does well everywhere — except the coasts; a supposedly groundbreaking revelation in the special counsel's investigation; and a spat over criminal-justice reform. Roseanne revival draws huge numbers In his last book, The Revolt of the Elites, the late social critic Christopher Lasch chided an emerging class of Americans — educated people of decent means who lived on the coasts, made their living working with information rather than their hands, and participated in a global marketplace of transients — for trading socialism for the culture war. American elites couldn't bring themselves to embrace a genuinely left-wing economic program for fear that their status would be endangered, Lasch contended; they preferred to channel their political energy into ridiculing middle America, whose habits were so abhorrent. Published in 1994, it's a book that anticipated a lot of today's political discourse. Lasch, obviously, was not the first social critic to suggest that there is an emerging class of American elites who have cloistered themselves off from the rest of the country. (A while ... Read More | | | Top Stories | | | | | | | | |  | | Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA
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