Elititis. "The Twilight of the Élites" by David Flint. [review]
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2003-09
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Haigh, Gideon
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Australian Book Review
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Accepted on its own terms, "The Twilight of the Élites" is just fine: a readable digest of various strands in current conservative thought, with some parts of which I disagree violently, to other parts of which I am far from antagonistic. It presents a simplistic opposition between ‘élite’ and ‘traditional’ thought without explaining how social conservatism found itself a bedfellow with economic extremism, but that is probably because it is less an effort at persuasion than solace for the already converted. It’s not an unduly self-important book, and is leavened with a droll sense of humour.
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Australian, Book Reviews, Publishing, Daily Express, Arthur Christiansen, Rhyl promenade, England, English north, London, Australian Broadcasting Authority, Alan Jones, Phillip Adams, Professor John Henningham, Independent Monthly, Mike Carlton, Stuart Littlemore, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC, Gulf War II, Lord Alston, George Orwell, The Times, Thomas Barnes, conservative, politics, John Pilger, The New Rulers of the World, Guardian, New Statesman, George Monbiot, The Age of Consent, Rupert Murdoch, Gideon Haigh
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Haigh, Gideon 2003. Élites. Review of "The Twilight of the Élites" by David Flint. 'Australian Book Review', No 254, September, 7-8.