In Defense of ElitismThe Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic for Time--who is a registered Democrat--offers a highly controversial yet persuasive argument that our devotion to the largely unexamined myth of egalitarianism has resulted in the current "dumbing of America". National TV and radio. |
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