Tag Archives: anti elitism

Rhetorical Dead Ends

9 January 2012

In the Los Angeles Review of Books Catherine Liu shares the impetus for writing American Idyll: Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique.

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My Gal Palin

17 September 2008

While writing for The New Yorker, George Saunders doesn’t blink, for he is Right.

I’m finding it hard to concentrate, as my eyes are killing me, due to I have not blinked since I started writing this. And, me being Regular, it takes a long time for me to write something this long.

Where was I? Ah, yes: I hate Élites. Which is why, whenever I am having brain surgery, or eye surgery, which is sometimes necessary due to all my non-blinking, I always hire some random Regular guy, with shaking hands if possible, who is also a drunk, scared of the sight of blood, and harbors a secret dislike for me.

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Wisdom of the Crowd

31 October 2007

In “The Cranks Who Swear by Citronella Oil” at the Observer, Nick Cohen uses the instructive example of homeopathy to expose the dangerous climate of anti-elitism (read: celebration of ignorance and stupidity) that stifles modern intellectuals.

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