It’s Their Fault

One of the most insidious crimes of the Baby Boomer generation is crime not of culture, violence, or selfishness (many of those to come, though): it’s a crime of language. They’ve taken one simple word, elite, and made it a weapon, a terrifying realm of negative space, perhaps Modern America’s most accommodating vehicle for hypocrisy.  Eric Alterman explores the political history of the term in The Nation.