In Defense of Elitism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Defense of Elitism write by Joel Stein. This book was released on 2019-10-22. In Defense of Elitism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Thurber finalist and former star Time columnist Joel Stein comes a "brilliant exploration" (Walter Isaacson) of America's political culture war and a hilarious call to arms for the elite. "I can think of no one more suited to defend elitism than Stein, a funny man with hands as delicate as a baby full of soft-boiled eggs." —Jimmy Kimmel, host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! The night Donald Trump won the presidency, our author Joel Stein, Thurber Prize finalist and former staff writer for Time Magazine, instantly knew why. The main reason wasn't economic anxiety or racism. It was that he was anti-elitist. Hillary Clinton represented Wall Street, academics, policy papers, Davos, international treaties and the people who think they're better than you. People like Joel Stein. Trump represented something far more appealing, which was beating up people like Joel Stein. In a full-throated defense of academia, the mainstream press, medium-rare steak, and civility, Joel Stein fights against populism. He fears a new tribal elite is coming to replace him, one that will fend off expertise of all kinds and send the country hurtling backward to a time of wars, economic stagnation and the well-done steaks doused with ketchup that Trump eats. To find out how this shift happened and what can be done, Stein spends a week in Roberts County, Texas, which had the highest percentage of Trump voters in the country. He goes to the home of Trump-loving Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams; meets people who create fake news; and finds the new elitist organizations merging both right and left to fight the populists. All the while using the biggest words he knows.
In Defense of Elitism
In Defense of Elitism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Defense of Elitism write by William A. Henry, III. This book was released on 2015-03-18. In Defense of Elitism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic for Time magazine comes the tremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive, argument that our devotion to the largely unexamined myth of egalitarianism lies at the heart of the ongoing "dumbing of America." Americans have always stubbornly clung to the myth of egalitarianism, of the supremacy of the individual average man. But here, at long last, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic William A. Henry III takes on, and debunks, some basic, fundamentally ingrained ideas: that everyone is pretty much alike (and should be); that self-fulfillment is more imortant thant objective achievement; that everyone has something significant to contribute; that all cultures offer something equally worthwhile; that a truly just society would automatically produce equal success results across lines of race, class, and gender; and that the common man is almost always right. Henry makes clear, in a book full of vivid examples and unflinching opinions, that while these notions are seductively democratic they are also hopelessly wrong.
Elitism
Elitism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elitism write by Eliane Glaser. This book was released on 2020-08-18. Elitism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The populist right have marshalled public anger against the real elites – corporate and financial power – and turned it onto those who represent us in Parliament, uphold our rights, treat us when we're sick, and create and curate the best books, art and ideas. Culture and education have been made into symbolic arenas of 'democratisation' while gross inequality remains intact. This important book argues that the real elites escape scrutiny while everything that makes our lives worth living becomes worthy and diluted. Meanwhile, liberals have lost their nerve, accepting the anti-elitism slur at face value. But social privilege is not the same thing as excellence. For too long conservatives have had a monopoly on upholding standards of beauty and truth. But now that they've become ruthless modernisers, it's time for progressives to take on that task. This book provides the ammunition for a timely rebuttal.
The Price of Silence
The Price of Silence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Price of Silence write by William D. Cohan. This book was released on 2014-04-08. The Price of Silence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An authoritative account of the Duke lacrosse team rape case illuminates the ever-widening gap between America's rich and poor, and demonstrates how far the powerful will go to protect themselves.
Pretentiousness
Pretentiousness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pretentiousness write by Dan Fox. This book was released on 2016-04-05. Pretentiousness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pretentiousness is the engine oil of culture; the essential lubricant in the development of all arts, high, low, or middle.
