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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: Excerpt: /345/ Who Is The New Elite? ft. Matt Goodwin
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On power, values and class.
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British professor Matt Goodwin joins us to talk about his recent new book Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics published earlier this year with Penguin. Matt has argued that a new elite has come to dominate public life, leading institutions and the cultural industries in Britain and across the wider Western world, and that they are fixated with issues that divide them from the larger public – to whom they are bitter and hostile.
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We talk about elites, old and new, as well as ideas about elites stemming back to Daniel Bell and C...