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From the article: > Earlier this week, Atlantic magazine – fast becoming the favored media outlet for self-styled intellectual elites of the Aspen Institute ty
by wenc 7y ago
From the article:
> Earlier this week, Atlantic magazine – fast becoming the favored media outlet for self-styled intellectual elites of the Aspen Institute type
Genuinely curious, does anyone know what insinuation is being made here? What does it mean to be of "the Aspen Institute" type?
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoWell, the Aspen Institute is a think tank funded by donations from billionaires and their foundations. They apparently try to be non-partisan. They claim to "drive change", but I cynically suspect that they don't make much of a difference on anything, ever. Couple that with the "self-styled intellectual elites" comment, and I think the idea is that of a group of self-anointed bright people who are out to change the world by sitting around and talking on other peoples' dime, and feeling smug in the process, while actually doing nothing that matters. But I'm not the author, and I'm just looking stuff up about the Aspen Institute, so this is just (slightly informed) guesswork.
- scrollbar 7y agoYep. Check out this podcast episode with Anand Giridharadas talking about his experiences addressing the Aspen Institute - was my first exposure to it and was pretty interesting https://www.vox.com/2018/9/5/17821522/anand-giridharadas-winner-take-all-ezra-klein-podcast https://www.vox.com/2018/9/5/17821522/anand-giridharadas-win...