America After Meritocracy: Chris Hayes’ The Twilight of The Elites

美国后优绩主义：克里斯·海斯的《精英黄昏》

作者: Aaron Swartz | 来源: aaronsw.com | 时间: 2012-06-20

[crossposted from Crooked Timber]

[转载自 Crooked Timber]

In his new book, The Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy, Chris Hayes manages the impossible trifecta: the book is compellingly readable, impossibly erudite, and — most stunningly of all — correct. At the end, I was left with just two quibbles: first, the book’s chapter on “pop epistemology” thoroughly explicated how elites got stuff wrong without bothering to mention the non-elites who got things right, leaving the reader with the all-too-common impression that getting it right was impossible; and second, the book never assembled its (surprisingly sophisticated) argument into a single summary. To discuss it, I feel we have to start with remedying the latter flaw:

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