I’m fortunate enough to have obtained an advance copy of Chris Hayes’ new book, Twilight of the Elites– not due to my perquisites as a little-read blogger, but the serendipity of one of my best friends.
As I make my way through the book over the next few days, I’ll be recording some of my preliminary thoughts here. I’ve been a fan of Hayes for several years now (dude even makes cable news edifying!), so I’m quite excited.
A teaser:
“[T]he core experience of the last decade isn’t just political dysfunction. It’s something much deeper and more existentially disruptive: the near total failure of each pillar institution of our society. The financial crisis and the grinding, prolonged economic immiseration it has precipitated are just the most recent instances of elite failure, the latest in an uninterrupted cascade of corruption and incompetence.”
