Oligarchy
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Beware the Do-Gooders December 14, 2022
Gone are the days when villains dressed the part and Wall Street vampires suited up like Gordon Gekko. These days, an American who wants to avoid being swindled needs to watch out for the T-shirt-clad do-gooders spouting the proper politics and pieti...
America’s Elites Want to End the Middle Class April 07, 2021
Arecent column by Victor Davis Hanson titled “Radical New Rules for Post-America” lists “10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently.” Hanson offers a thorough description of what’s wrong: Fiscal and monetary negligence, selective enfor...
The Terrifying Rise of the Tech Aristocracy March 19, 2021
Increasingly, it feels like tech companies rule the world. They make huge profits and hold enormous amounts of personal data about all of us. But they also wield extraordinary power over politics, interfering in elections and deplatforming people on ...
A Tyranny Without Tyrants March 11, 2021
Adistinguishing mark of classical political philosophy is its focus on the ruling claims of regimes. Classical philosophers sifted and evaluated the distinctive qualities invoked to legitimate governance by some number of people—one, few, or many. No...
The Oligarch's Revenge October 13, 2020
The average person may be forgiven for thinking that the South actually won the Civil War. Despite a brief experiment in interracial democracy during the Reconstruction years, for much of its history the region has upheld a regime of brutal racial su...
Burke's Mannered Economics October 02, 2020
Only someone like Edmund Burke could find in the “motions of England’s internal grain trade” anything resembling “poetry.” But find it he did, according to Gregory M. Collins. In his new book, Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke’s Political Economy,...
Neofeudalism and its New Legitimisers May 21, 2020
With populist parties and movements gaining influence not only in North America but in Europe and Latin America as well, many have been predicting a new era of authoritarianism, such as portrayed by George Orwell in 1984 or by Margaret Atwood in The ...
The Fall of the Liberal Elite May 07, 2020
Thirty years ago, as the Cold War came to an end, Francis Fukuyama published his seminal essay ‘The End of History?’. He argued that human development had reached its end point in the form of a liberal democratic state underpinned by a market economy...
Hamilton, Madison, and the Rise of Oligarchy February 22, 2019
During the 1780s, in both war and peace, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison shared a number of political principles. They had a similar view of human nature, supported republican self-government, and wanted the national government to assume greater...
