Chris Hayes on elite failure

The Nation's Editor-at-Large and MSNBC's weekend host, Chris Hayes, recently published a book documenting the fundamental failure of America's elite institutions and exploring the causes and solutions: Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy. What makes this book genuinely outstanding, and so rare, is that it is actually difficult to decide whether one agrees with many of its arguments. That's because, as is typical of Hayes, he is more interested in grappling with complex questions...