Harvard Is Burning (Kindle Single)

In a dazzling attack from a liberal perspective, legendary controversialist and award-winning author Lee Siegel addresses himself directly to the liberal elites who, he argues, have betrayed their constituents, degraded reformist politics, and alienated independent voters who should be sympathetic to the liberal agenda.

Siegel argues that liberalism repels potential allies because voters know that, for the liberal elite, the fix is always in. Cushioned by high-powered connections, attending the same exclusive schools, exempt from their own virtuous prescriptions, obsessed with their own gene pool and with raising super-children, liberal elites cannot hide their contempt for the average middle-class person of modest ambition, little sophistication, and humble means.

It is ironic that these elites are now condemning President Obama for compromising and appeasing. Compromise with and appeasement of anyone with power, money,and status are deeply embedded elite instincts. Having elevated an inadequate figure to the presidency in order to flatter their moral vanity by electing a black man, the liberal elites are scapegoating Obama for embodying their own worst qualities.

Passionate, witty and compassionate, outraged and disgusted by the way liberal mandarins are strangling liberalism, this book will change the way you see not only American politics, but America itself.



Lee Siegel is the author of four books and a winner of the National Magazine Award. He has published over 600 articles, essays and reviews in numerous publications, including the Atlantic Monthly, Time, The New Yorker, The Economist, The Guardian, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Siegel has been the book critic for The Nation, television critic and senior editor at The New Republic, art critic for Slate, staff writer at Harper's and the LA Times Book Review, senior columnist at The Daily Beast, and weekly columnist and editor-at-large at the New York Observer. He lives in a New York suburb with his wife and two children.



Praise for Lee Siegel:

“One of the country’s most eloquent and acid-tongued cultural critics.”

--New York Times Magazine

“One of the heroic few.”
--The Guardian

“Savor his vigorous prose, and prepare to be surprised.”

--Pete Hamill

“Siegel is wildlly and satisfyingly unpredictable.”

--Janet Malcolm