>America Has a Ruling Class Samuel Goldman – NYT
There is so much to pick apart in this article. How to choose among all the falsities and misdirection would take too much time. But let me throw out a couple of quotes from it anyways.
Ultimately, the change must come from the powerful themselves
Admitting the fact of noblesse might help encourage the ideal of oblige.
On the right, it tends to involve exaggerated machismo and embrace of working-class signifiers
That skepticism becomes dangerous, though, when it pits an unconventional affect and good intentions against the practical demands of governing. The defining task of politics isn’t to speak truth to power. It’s to use power to achieve shared goals.
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Chicago Sun and the
St. Louis
Post-Dispatch. The Lasches were determinedly secular, and read American history as it had been written by Charles and Mary Beard and the progressive historians the struggle of a resolutely enlightened people against the lies and malevolence of the wealthy and powerful. The social legislation of the New Deal years confirmed Zora and Robert’s belief that American history proceeded in a straight line, its occasional jaggedness entirely the result of temporary accidents that could be remedied by right-thinking people like themselves. They were immensely proud of their son, an only child, but when he became fascinated with history’s temporary accidents they grew anxious that he would abandon familial convictions. Lasch remained in close and loving touch with his parents throughout his life, but he discarded their intellectual and political pieties as he grew older. He had considered a literary career and experimented with short stories and a novel. His
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