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elites

David Brooks: “How the Elite rigged Society”

John Fea   |  February 21, 2025

A lot to think about here:

Roundup: reviews of Musa al-Gharbi’s ‘We Have Never Been Woke’

Nadya Williams   |  January 15, 2025

We may yet run a review at Current, but for the moment, a roundup of representative coverage elsewhere.

How Harris is transcending Trump

John Fea   |  August 15, 2024

E.J. Dionne is right: The sudden and radical shift in the trajectory of the 2024 campaign owes to more than the replacement of President Joe Biden with Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate. To a degree that’s still not fully appreciated, Harris […]

Who are the “elites” in this election?

John Fea   |  August 7, 2024

I’m looking forward to Will Bunch’s column on Tim Walz: And let’s not forget Walz’s master’s degree in educational leadership from Mankato State and Harris’s law degree from the San Francisco campus of the University California law school.

In the GOP it’s “the elites vs. the rabble”

John Fea   |  April 11, 2023

Here is a taste of Sam Adler-Bell’s New York Times op-ed: “The One Things Trump Has That DeSantis Never Will“: Thus far, Mr. DeSantis has had greater success with party elites. By pairing aggressive stances on the culture wars with […]

The class conflict at the heart of the American Revolution

John Fea   |  December 12, 2022

Over at Jacobin, historian William Hogeland discusses his ongoing work on “workers” and “elites” in the late eighteenth century. Here is a taste of his interview with Astra Taylor: ASTRA TAYLOR: Can you talk about what your narrative of America’s […]

The Author’s Corner with Chad Pearson

Rachel Petroziello   |  November 18, 2022

Chad Pearson is Principal Lecturer of History at the University of North Texas. This interview is based on his new book, Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2022). JF: What […]

When Harvard grads attack the American “elite”

John Fea   |  March 28, 2022

Someone recently left a message on my voicemail asking me if I saw myself as part of the “liberal elite.” He is one of the regular callers who leaves voice mails whenever I write something here or elsewhere that they […]