The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy Audiobook (Free)

In this challenging work, Christopher Lasch makes an accessible critique of what’s wrong with the beliefs and beliefs of America’s professional and managerial elites. The distinguished historian argues that democracy today is usually threatened not by the public, as Jose Ortega y Gasset (The Revolt from the Masses) had stated, but from the elites. These elites-mobile and increasingly global in outlook-refuse to accept limits or ties to nation and place. Because they isolate themselves within their systems and enclaves, they give up the middle course, divide the nation, and betray the idea of a democracy for any America’s citizens. That is Lasch’s clarion call for a return to the virtues of community, responsibility, and religion.