"The Talented Retain Many of the Vices of Aristocracy Without Its Virtues"

"Yet whereas conservatives at the time saw the market as the solution, Lasch often viewed it as a problem, capitalism being in symbiosis with radicalism. By encouraging instant gratification and the ephemeral, especially when it came to jobs, the market undermined the family, which he called 'a haven in a heartless world'. The very things that radicals attacked—'the authoritarian family, repressive sexual morality, literary censorship, the work ethic, and other foundations of bourgeois order'—have already been 'weakened or destroyed by advanced capitalism itself'."

Ed West at UnHerd calls Christopher Lasch's The Revolt of the Elites "the most prescient work of the age."