“Christopher Lasch once famously declared that the professions ‘came into being by reducing the layman to incompetence.’ [Emanuel] Haldeman-Julius’s idea was to do the opposite—to undermine elites by making ordinary people capable.” I don’t know how “famous” Lasch’s declaration can really be said to be, but it is certainly provocative. Haldeman-Julius was apparently a publisher…
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