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?
