Links 4/6/2021 | naked capitalism
>America Has a Ruling Class Samuel Goldman – NYT There is so much to pick apart in this article. How to choose among all the falsities and misdirection would take too much time. But let me throw out a couple of quotes from it anyways. Ultimately, the change must come from the powerful themselves Admitting the fact of noblesse might help encourage the ideal of oblige. On the right, it tends to involve exaggerated machismo and embrace of working-class signifiers That skepticism becomes dangerous, though, when it pits an unconventional affect and good intentions against the practical demands o...