Describing DC

This is the single most perfect description of D.C. “elites” (i.e., journos, hill staffers, and think tankers) that I have ever read:

Third, they suffer the status rivalries endemic to the upper-middle class. As law school grads, they resent B-school grads. As Washingtonians, they resent New Yorkers. As policy wonks, they resent people with good bone structure.

Someone get that David Brooks guy a book deal!

(h/t Noam)