In Defense of Elitism: Why I’m Better Than You and You are Better Than Someone Who Didn’t Buy This Book Audiobook (Free)

From Thurber finalist and former superstar TIME columnist Joel Stein comes a ‘brilliant exploration’ (Walter Isaacson) of America’s political tradition war and a hilarious call to arms for the elite.

‘I can think about no one even more suited to defend elitism than Stein, a funny guy with hands as delicate like a baby filled with soft-boiled eggs.’–Jimmy Kimmel, host of Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The night Donald Trump won the presidency, our author Joel Stein, Thurber Award finalist and former staff writer for Period about In Defense of Elitism: Why I’m Better Than You and You are MUCH BETTER THAN SOMEBODY WHO Didn’t Purchase This Book Newspaper, instantly knew why. The main reason wasn’t economic stress or racism. It had been that he was anti-elitist. Hillary Clinton represented Wall Road, academics, policy papers, Davos, worldwide treaties as well as the people who think they’re much better than you. People like Joel Stein. Trump displayed something far more appealing, which was defeating up people like Joel Stein.

Inside a full-throated protection of academia, the mainstream press, medium-rare steak, and civility, Joel Stein battles against populism. He worries a fresh tribal elite is normally coming to substitute him, one that will fend off expertise of all kinds and send out the country hurtling backward to a time of wars, financial stagnation as well as the well-done steaks doused with ketchup that Trump eats.

To learn how this shift happened and what can be done, Stein spends a week in Roberts Region, Texas, which experienced the highest percentage of Trump voters in the united states. He goes to the house of Trump-loving Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams; fits people who create false news; and discovers the new elitist organizations merging both best and left to battle the populists. Even while using the largest words he knows.