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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2. A few quick historical points. Epstein actually claims that WASPs, unlike Kennedy family, don't engage in "feckless philanderings"
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3. Re: "feckless philanderings". Might be worth reading the biographies of George Kennan & FDR, or novels of John Updike & John Cheever.
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4. Epstein also thinks that in the days of WASP domination there were no "greedy pigs" on Wall Street. I'm speechless.
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5. Some have expressed surprise that someone named "Joseph Esptein" could be nostalgic for WASP elite. but there is a hidden logic here.
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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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