Here is an excellent essay response to student questions by Richard Hanania, excerpt:
Although the EHC [elite human capital] species can make many mistakes, it is inevitable that they will dominate and especially the good thing they do. I think a society where many elites can eat someone like Trump would become so corrupt that it would collapse. This is why conservatives cannot build scientific institutions, and very few outlets for honest journalists. Honest players are discriminated against in academia and the media, but most of them are not in these jobs because they choose to do so, as they lack intellectual curiosity and concern for the truth. If it doesn’t make them money or promote their humanity in a very simple way – unlike the complex and radical ways in which liberals develop their self-esteem – conservationists are not interested.
Conservatives complain about liberals “virtue signaling,” but another way to avoid that is to not care about virtue at all. And only by abandoning any ideas higher than “destroy the enemy” can the movement fall into line behind someone like Donald Trump. That being said, I think markets are not human, and Western civilization has done a good job of giving the entrepreneur what he deserves. That said, EHC is a necessary part of any functioning civilization, and I see my job as helping to make it more liberal than leftist. The truly conservative EHC class is something close to an oxymoron, as the first things intelligent people do when they begin to use common sense is to reject religion in public life and widen their moral circle.
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