Stupid Cognitive Elite
Ever since Charles Murray's last book stirred up the blogosphere, including yours truly, everybody has written some opinion on Murray's point that the smart people are increasingly concentrating in the upper classes, creating a cognitive difference between the rich and powerful and the people at large. James Donald has been the only one to deny the major premise: that the elite is getting any smarter than before. He says it ain't so, that they're dumber every day, which has started many inte...