1. This Joseph Epstein piece nostalgic about days of WASP domination of USA is really remarkably silly: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304367204579268301043949952 …
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6. Epstein of course is a neo-con, a social formation that has a tormented history with the WASP elite.
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6. It isn't sufficiently noted but part of the formation of neo-conservatism came from social outsiders who wanted to join WASP elite.
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7. 1st generation of neo-cons were Jewish & Catholic in 1950/1960s who welcomed loosening of WASP elite to people like them.
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8. Many early neo-cons were cultural Anglophiles (Kristol/Himmelfarb, Podhoretz at Cambridge, Neuhaus)
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