... for established institutions since the Great Recession in 2007. Liberal democracy has two characteristic deformations. Elitists claim that they best understand the means to the public's ends and should be freed from the inconvenient necessity of popular consent. The result has been liberal democracy's other...

.... 1538) is driven and disabled by at least three powerful, interlocking paradoxes. A play that promises popularity is at every turn elitist; a play that draws on the morality play undoes ethics; and, not least, a play that wants to be a play is, as it can only be, designed to kill drama stone dead. Bale...

... of the friendship between Kallen and Locke and, from that friendship, the idea of cultural pluralism. It shows that Kallen and Locke maintained their elitist sensibilities, but like so many American elitists before them, they believed in an aristocracy of “merit,” a purportedly objective standard. At Harvard...

.... It identifies opponents and critics of cognitive consensus that include sceptics, cognitive elitists, and social science critics. This chapter concludes that as far as rational inquiry is concerned, consensus is no more than a regulative ideal that cannot be expected to be achieved in concrete situations...

.... Also, outside the church, Christians have had discriminating opinions about the styles of entertainment and art today. However, a big deal is not made out of such issues because the Bible never said anything about such issues, and those who do care are perceived to be aesthetes and elitists. Christians...