David Brooks Says Our Elite Is Talented and Open

I really wanted to ignore David Brooks' piece today, but he was saying excessively silly things in criticizing my friend, Chris Hayes. Specifically, he was responding to the main point of Chris's new book, The Twilight of the Elites, that the elites have become corrupt and inbred.

Brooks tells us that Chris is wrong:

"I’d say today’s meritocratic elites achieve and preserve their status not mainly by being corrupt but mainly by being ambitious and disciplined."

Is that so? Perhaps Brooks can...