Eerie Prescience, Esquire Division: A lot of what is written about the new smarts-and-skills based elite, and how it is separating off from society–by, among others, Robert Reich, me, David Brooks and now Charles Murray–was anticipated in a ballsy, now-forgotten 1978 Esquire article that turned into this book. …
Update: It turns out that David Lebedoff, author of that article and book, has not been forgotten by Powerline! …