Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy

Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy (2012) is a book by Christopher Hayes. Hayes argues that America's meritocracy has produced a self-dealing elite and a crisis of trust in banks, schools, media and government after failures from Enron to the financial crisis and the Iraq War. He links inequality and closed credential circles to populist anger from both left and right.

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Fareed Zakaria: “My book of the week is Christopher Hayes' "Twilight of the Elites." I happened to bring Hayes' brilliant book along with me to read while milling around the World Economic Forum with Davos men and Davos women. It's a highly intelligent and even profound reflection on the problems with our current system of meritocracy that has so divided almost all our societies.”