Astra Taylor - One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a

One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of this tradition of problematic anti-elitism where the elites are always the liberal class - the intellectuals, the professors, the artists - and not the economic elites. Why are we so mad and aggrieved at newspaper editors but not at corporate executives? I think we need to look more at the latter, at economic elites.

- Astra Taylor

topic: Thinking, Artist, Editors, Populism, Elitism, Newspaper Editors