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Courtiers and Sycophants: Catherine Liu’s Case Against the Professional Managerial Class | Los Angeles Review of Books

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Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class by Catherine Liu. University of Minnesota Press. 90 pages. AMONG THE pleasures of the HBO series Succession, which satirizes a Murdoch-like media dynasty, is the unembarrassed spectacle used to portray the spiritually dead. Departing from television that fetishizes plutocrats, Succession transports us to their plausibly perverse reality. One episode follows the Roy family to Hungary for a corporate retreat qua wild boar hunt. The wheels of power here are represented by a convoy of Range Rovers snaking down a country road, a night of revelry that ends with a roast of pigs as well as the patriarch’s suspected betrayers, who are blindfolded and made to root around for a scrap of meat on the floor — let them eat sausage. A satisfying image of the unhappy rich. But whose unhappiness? To dwell on the systemic consequences of the Roys’ bad behavior would diminish the pleasure of observing them in their natural habitat. Indeed

Courtiers and Sycophants: Catherine Liu’s Case Against the Professional Managerial Class An excoriation of the professional managerial class that strips attention from the people it purports to help. By Lukas Moe July 20, 2021 Politics Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class by Catherine Liu . University of Minnesota Press , 2020. 90 pages. Buy on Bookshop.org Did you know LARB is a reader-supported nonprofit? LARB publishes daily without a paywall as part of our mission to make rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the

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