James Burnham's Elite Theory and the Postwar American Right

Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2011 (154):29-50 (2011)
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ExcerptThere is a long tradition of suspicion toward the power of “elites” in the history of American politics. Since the days of the Revolution, Americans have often worried about the rise of small and unaccountable powers that threaten the democratic will and adulterate the traditions of the republic. What Richard Hofstadter pejoratively termed the “paranoid style” of postwar conservative politics has deep roots across the political spectrum in American history. On both the Left and the Right, Americans have opposed the centralization of authority in the hands of a privileged few who enjoy disproportionate access to wealth and control of…

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Grant Havers
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