On my last trip to Pennsylvania, my brother-in-law gave my husband and me a copy of In Defense of Elitism as a sort of minor dig. (Joke’s on him, for one thing, true elitists don’t feel any shame in being called elite). This is a book that feels as at home in the humor section as it does on the political science shelf. It pulls off the trick of making you laugh initially at the innate silliness of it all–an author who sports a monocle in his […]