She is an associate professor at St Olaf's College.
Her St. Olaf Webpage
St Olaf's is in cow country about forty miles south of where I grew up. Northfield is a cow town with two colleges. I have never been there. It was directly across the Minneapolis St/Paul megalopolis. There was nothing I could get there that I could not find closer.
Competition among elites is a fancy way of saying what is going to happen when there is not enough shit to go around.
QuoteThis is a book review of end times by Peter Turchin and the the title is a little bit misleading it's a little bit dead-baby but end times doesn't mean the world's about to end it means uh some ways the opposite.^== (in your dreams)
Her Critique is interesting but as far as I know trucks are still unloading boxes of stuff at the Faribault, MN Wallmart. Thus she can continue to delude herself that elites play important social roles.
As things go foobar that will be a hard argument to make.
Most elites are no more than consumers with power. Like most of us they don't actually do anything.