Our Not So Best and Not So Brightest
From Eliot Spitzer to Elizabeth
Warren to Fareed Zakaria — what is wrong with our elites? Do they assume
that because they are on record for the proverbial people, or because
they have been branded with an Ivy League degree, or because they are
habitués of the centers of power between New York and Washington, or
because they write for the old (but now money-losing) blue-chip brands (
Time magazine, the
New York Times,
etc.), or because we see them on public and cable TV, or because they
rule us from the highest echelons of government that they are exempt
from the sorts of common ethical constraints that the rest of us must
adhere to — at least if a society as sophisticated as ours is to work?
