Pathology of the Elites: How the Arrogant Classes Plan to Run Your Life
Michael Knox Beran is one of the most eloquent and deeply humane writers in America. It's not just that he dazzles with the breadth of his knowledge of Western literature and American history; he genuinelyenlightens. Read this book—and profit. (Rich Lowry, National Review)Michael Knox Beran makes here a bid to revive a lost art—that of the erudite general critic, ranging widely across history, literature, and philosophy in service of a grand critique of our current political scene. The result is a package of edifying essays, leagues removed from the repetitive dreariness and mendacity of what passes for commentary and analysis in much of the mass media today. (Steven Hayward, author of The Age of Reagan)Beran demonstrates that literary grace, erudition, and common sense are not contraries. He embodies them. (Theodore Dalrymple, author of Our Culture, What’s Left of It)Michael Knox Beran examines the false benevolence that characterizes the power classes in contemporary America. Their enlightened pity for their fellow citizens, he charges, conceals an instinct for power rather than compassion. Beran argues that today's elites have come to rely on a social philosophy that reduces people to a mass of social groups and types, obscures their individual humanity, and makes them easier to manipulate. (Carolina Journal)