Steve Lagerfeld, a public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, is writing a book on contrarians. He was the editor of The Wilson Quarterly from 1999 to 2014.
Privilege today still comes with strings attached, but they are different now.
Once attacked for rejecting American exceptionalism, liberals now are in almost sole possession of it.
Banding together is a healthy human impulse. Banding together in knots of narcissistic fury is not.