"The Meaning Of Sarah Palin"

Some columnists hated her, some loved her. Yuval Levin finally attempts a balanced view of the Sarah Palin candidacy and nails it.

So why did it happen? What was the Palin episode really about? The answer has much to do with the age-old tension between populism and elitism in our public life, which is to say, between the notion that we are best governed by the views, needs, and interests of the many and the conviction that power can only be managed wisely by a select few.