I’m 31, an Iraq War veteran, a Penn State graduate, a native of State College, acquaintance of Sandusky’s, and a product of his Second Mile Foundation. And I have fully lost faith in the leadership of my parents’ generation.

A striking quote from a man named Thomas Day used to dramatize the parade of failures that helped to inspire Twilight of the Elites, a new book about American meritocracy.

(This is the only book with Twilight in the title on my reading list.)