{"id":1575,"date":"2007-12-02T16:49:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T16:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-12-02T16:51:57","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T16:51:57","slug":"the_skyboxes_an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1575","title":{"rendered":"The Skyboxes And The Gentry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an oped in the LA Times from Joel Kotkin and Fred Siegel that I agree with 100%. I&#8217;ve talked about &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.armedliberal.com\/2002\/05\/are_there_any_liberals_in_the.html\" target=\"browser\">skybox liberalism<\/a>&#8216;; they call it &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/opinion\/la-op-kotkin2dec02,1,7860083.story?track=rss\" target=\"browser\">The Gentry Liberals<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Since the 1960s, the intellectual class epitomized by Schlesinger has grown many times over. Academic liberals have become something of a political power in their own right. College campuses constituted the largest single base of contributors to the 2004 presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry. Professors are among the highly compensated and pampered professional cadres of the knowledge economy &#8212; which also includes lawyers, engineers, doctors, wealth managers, investors and other educated professionals &#8212; that make up the ranks of gentry liberalism and flatter the politicians who advocate its positions.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Kotkin talks about modern liberalism; Armed Liberal approves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}