http://kevinhoffberg.com/blog/2008/11/09/mark-lilla-on-the-perils-of-populist-chic/ The search for good decisions continues Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:09:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://kevinhoffberg.com/blog/2008/11/09/mark-lilla-on-the-perils-of-populist-chic/comment-page-1/#comment-138 3ruce’s Blog / Mark Lilla on The Perils of Populist Chic | Kevin Hoffberg’s Blog Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:37:09 +0000 http://kevinhoffberg.com/blog/2008/11/09/mark-lilla-on-the-perils-of-populist-chic/#comment-138 [...] Mark Lilla on The Perils of Populist Chic | Kevin Hoffberg’s Blog In 1976 Irving Kristol publicly worried that “populist paranoia” was “subverting the very institutions and authorities that the democratic republic laboriously creates for the purpose of orderly self-government.” But by the mid-’80s, he was telling readers of this newspaper that the “common sense” of ordinary Americans on matters like crime and education had been betrayed by “our disoriented elites,” which is why “so many people — and I include myself among them — who would ordinarily worry about a populist upsurge find themselves so sympathetic to this new populism.” Mark Lilla on The Perils of Populist Chic | Kevin Hoffberg’s Blog [...] [...] Mark Lilla on The Perils of Populist Chic | Kevin Hoffberg’s Blog In 1976 Irving Kristol publicly worried that “populist paranoia” was “subverting the very institutions and authorities that the democratic republic laboriously creates for the purpose of orderly self-government.” But by the mid-’80s, he was telling readers of this newspaper that the “common sense” of ordinary Americans on matters like crime and education had been betrayed by “our disoriented elites,” which is why “so many people — and I include myself among them — who would ordinarily worry about a populist upsurge find themselves so sympathetic to this new populism.” Mark Lilla on The Perils of Populist Chic | Kevin Hoffberg’s Blog [...]

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