{"id":992,"date":"2025-06-18T08:56:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T08:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=992"},"modified":"2025-06-18T08:56:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T08:56:34","slug":"the-best-and-the-brightest-under-pressure-matt-stoller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/the-best-and-the-brightest-under-pressure-matt-stoller\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Best and the Brightest Under Pressure\u201d &#8211; Matt Stoller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cOver the course of the next four years, I was shaken, many times, by a realization that most people already knew, and that David Halberstam wrote in The Best and the Brightest in 1971 on the war in Vietnam. And that realization is that the story that elites tell one another, and believe, well, it\u2019s just not true. We don\u2019t believe in merit. It\u2019s easy enough to understand, but it\u2019s very hard to really accept. If your identity is constructed around the idea that you are where you are because you deserve it, it\u2019s rough to learn this truth\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebignewsletter.com\/p\/monopoly-round-up-the-best-and-the\">https:\/\/www.thebignewsletter.com\/p\/monopoly-round-up-the-best-and-the<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOver the course of the next four years, I was shaken, many times, by a realization that most people already knew, and that David Halberstam wrote in The Best and the Brightest in 1971 on the war in Vietnam. And that realization is that the story that elites tell one another, and believe, well, it\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}