‘The sins of the educated class’
David Brooks at The New York Instances
Fashionable “elite, educated-class progressivism [is] loads much less engaging than the working-class progressivism of Frances Perkins that I examine once I was younger,” says David Brooks. To “be progressive is to be in opposition to privilege. However at this time progressives dominate elite establishments just like the unique universities, the massive foundations and the highest cultural establishments.” Progressive advantage is “outlined by being anti-elite. However at this time’s educated class constitutes the elite, or not less than a giant a part of it.”
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