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The author of The Tyranny of Liberalism scrutinizes the supposed Golden Age of high ideals:
A class that rules by claiming not to rule needs to hide what it is. Our new rulers deny their identity as a class while denouncing the influence of classes that remain identifiable as such. If the Supreme Court is all white or male, that’s domination by a particular class and something must be done about it. If it’s all graduates of Yale and Harvard Law School, and recent presidential elections have all been contests between various Yale and Harvard graduates, that’s not domination by a particular class, it’s just proof that Yale and Harvard are superior and the more power we give the Supreme Court and president the better.
Bruce on 13 Sep 2012 at 2:24 pm #
Everything that Kalb writes is worth reading.
Matt Weber on 13 Sep 2012 at 2:32 pm #
That’s a good quote. You see it with sexism as well. When men made up the vast majority of office workers and college students it was evil sexism. Now that it is swinging the other way, it turns out that women are just superior and men are superfluous. Well shoot, should have told us that back in the 60s so we could have skipped all the equality BS.
Savrola on 13 Sep 2012 at 2:55 pm #
Actually Kalb’s middle-brow stuff is really getting old.
Yes, someone of his caliber is needed to dumb-down conservative principles for the Heartland conservatives, but one could argue that he does too bad a job of it, which is not necessarily a negative critique of his intellectual standards, but rather a indictment of the mentality of his readers.
Kirt Higdon on 13 Sep 2012 at 4:33 pm #
An interesting article, although not exactly news to anyone who has been paying attention.