Woke Swells Deconstructed — Marco Rubio Pins the Tail on the Elite Donkeys...
Decades of Decadence: How Our Spoiled Elites Blew America’s Inheritance of Liberty, Security, and Prosperity By Marco Rubio (Broadside Books, 223 pages, $32) In 2010, a 39-year-old Marco Rubio (he...
View ArticleDavos Man Becomes Beijing Man: The World Economic Forum Meets in China
Members of the World Economic Forum (WEF) are often referred to as “Davos Men” because they convene their annual huddle-ups in Davos, Switzerland. But Davos Man is a misnomer because Davos is not the...
View ArticleEmergency Cultural Lessons Still Rejected by the ’60s Elite
Lessons are either considered and then taken or ignored and dismissed. The elite of the ’60s generation has, above all, been given every opportunity over these roughly 60 years (counting from the age...
View ArticleLa Dolce Vita: The Moral Dichotomy of the Middle Class
Federico Fellini is often lauded for the highly imaginative quality of his films. Indeed, so powerful is the association of the Italian director with the surreal and the fantastic that his last name...
View ArticleElites Are Confounded by Populist Sentiment
American populism’s rise is directly connected to the failures of our self-styled elites. American elites have in numerous instances missed the coming of important crises, some of which they have...
View ArticleThe Spectacle Ep. 66: American Aristocrats Don’t Think Like You Do
Who votes Democrat, runs the cultural institutions, and wants to replace your gas stoves and cars with electric ones? The 1 percent, that’s who. On today’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, hosts...
View ArticleThe US Learns China’s Lessons on Elitism
China offers a cautionary lesson on what happens when an elite exclusively rules. The Celestial Empire has come crashing down to earth: the latest sign being a $6 trillion stock loss over the last...
View ArticleFive Quick Things: Checking In on Our Abysmal Elites
As this is a week in which many of us can proclaim our profound, and probably permanent, disgust with the people who claim to be the elites among us, I figured I’d wrap things up with a five-count...
View ArticleCan We Please Give Philadelphia to New Jersey?
I’m tired of hearing political pundits divide our Commonwealth into east and west, urban and rural. We are one Pennsylvania — united — and we will come together to tackle our greatest challenges. —...
View ArticleWhat the Elites Think of Trump Supporters
Every now and then, liberal elites bluntly say what they think about Americans who support former President Donald Trump. Barack Obama accused them of “cling[ing]” to their religion and guns. Hillary...
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