Why So Many Elites Feel Like Losers - by Freddie deBoer
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It’s destabilizing to have a nation of young strivers with no coherent vision or path to success.
(Photo by Mengwen Cao via Getty Images.) As Persuasion celebrates its third anniversary, our team is proud of what we’ve achieved—and in need of a little breather. So, for the second half of August, we are republishing some of our favorite essays of the past 12 months. From Freddie deBoer's essay on why so many apparently successful educated elites are wracked by a sense of profound failure to William Galston's incisive look at the increasingly influential national conservative movement, and from Kateryna Kibarova’s firsthand account of rebuilding in Ukraine to Blake Stone-Banks’…
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