Glimpses of a New Order

- The new elites are in revolt against “Middle America,” as they imagine it: a nation technologically backward, politically reactionary, repressive in its sexual morality, middlebrow in its tastes, smug and complacent, dull and dowdy.
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- Their livelihoods rest not so much on the ownership of property as on the manipulation of information and professional expertise. Their inve…
Lasch saw the emergence of a new class of elites.