“For while it’s more or less inevitably true that aesthetically ambitious books and TV shows are made by relatively rich people for an audience of other relatively rich people, it’s not inevitable that these books and TV shows must be tributes to how virtuous (how anti-racist, anti-sexist, pro-gay marriage, etc.) rich people are.”
— The Un-Usable Past, Walter Benn Michaels, The Baffler. Rather mixed feelings on this article!
