group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual, social or economic status
Megan Zogby writes for the Martin Center about serious problems plaguing high-profile institutions of higher learning. Parents will go to all sorts of lengths to give their children a leg…
Victor Davis Hanson of National Review Online highlights rich Americans who live to scold their “inferiors.” Ed Bastian made $17 million in 2019 as a chief executive officer of Delta…
John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist highlights lessons that 2020 taught us about American elites. For as difficult as the past year has been, from politics to the pandemic, it…
Yuval Levin offers National Review Online readers an interesting take on the college bribery scandal. The fact that the fraud and misbehavior here involved college admissions might be misleading us…
Yale alumnus Kyle Smith writes at National Review Online about factors contributing to the admissions bribery scandal now rocking the academic world. The latest elite-college admissions scandal rests on a…
Victor Davis Hanson explains at National Review Online why academic credentials are losing cachet in the world of politics. Trumpism is sometimes derided as an updated know-nothingism that rejects expertise…
In a recent post at the Law and Liberty blog, John McGinnis explains how, “Elite Constraints on Democracy Encourage Populism”: Over the weekend the New York Times published another in…
This is an interesting article by Joel Kotkin. He argues that Romney is the last patrician and he is being replaced by the a new power elite more akin to…
Thomas Sowell argues here that it isn’t worth it. The quality of the education isn’t necessarily any better at any of our higher ed Rolls Royces and may even be…
Fifty years ago, graduating from any college put you in a pretty elite crowd. Now that a large majority of young people enroll in college, in order to have a…