Interviews August 28, 2012

Chris Hayes, photograph by Sarah Shatz Christopher Hayes is the Nation’s editor-at-large and the host of the MSNBC’s weekend morning show, “Up With Chris Hayes!” In his new book, Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy (which Jim Sleeper reviews in our Fall issue) Hayes outlines the mechanics of meritocracy and the corruption and fraud it breeds. This, he argues, is at the core of the institutional failures of the last decade. Bookforum: Twilight of the Elites starts off with this incredible litany of recent institutional failures, from Wall Street to Congress. The inequality embedded in these systems seems