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...essay’s attack on the children of the “American socioeconomic elite?? rests on conjecture and not a single statement of fact other than an imperfect perception of general campus trends. It suggests that to predict someone’s morality and future conduct all we need to find out is how much money his or her daddy makes. This is just as inappropriate as the commonly held but false belief that Americans on welfare are lazy good-for-nothings looking for a taxpayer handout...
...represented an even more extensive use of populist rhetoric, and its populist nature is now revealed by the fact that it has barely been mentioned in the weeks since the subject was first broached. In the desperate moments following the Massachusetts Senate race, Obama sought an “elite?? group to blame, and Wall Street bankers provided a perfect, easy target. His failure to outline a clear plan explains the holdup now preventing banking reform, and his focus on blaming the banks rather than reforming them represents the keystone failure of the populist ideology...
Lewis did not approach the Huffington Post himself. George Mason University Professor Janine Wedel got in touch with Lewis, asking him to write a blog post that would be part of the Huff Post’s series on the “shadow elite??—in honor of Wedel’s book Shadow Elite. Lewis agreed, noting to FlyBy that “she’s written a lot about the Harvard in Russia scandal that I mentioned in my piece...
...richest and biggest-name residents live in Preston Hollow’s enormous estates; the entire city knows it, and to perpetuate the residents’ collective identity as anything else but what they are—a smattering of Texas’s political and social elite??is to succumb to their power...
...destination dining. Food blogs hail the carts as some of the city’s best and the name “Red Hook Ball Fields” is now synonymous with street food delicacy. The carts have taken their place among New York’s ethnic cuisine elite??when the city threatened not to renew the vendors’ permit in 2007, dedicated eaters, including Senator Chuck Schumer, rallied for their survival...