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choices the society has made about how to treat them. This, in Walker’s view, made it important to go beyond Carnegie’s idea of temporary inequality as the price of progress. Wealthy individuals needed to ask themselves, “Is the playing field on which I accumulated my wealth level and fair? Does the system privilege people like me in ways that comp

In America there are no nobles or men of letters, and the people is apt to mistrust the wealthy; lawyers consequently form the highest political class, and the most cultivated circle of society. They have therefore nothing to gain by innovation, which adds a conservative interest to their natural taste for public order.

The technocrats are obsessed with returning the system to the norm that they are used to and think of as the natural condition. The 2020 election, if it follows patterns, ought to be won by the technocracy, which means the Democrats, although in fact it is an election that can go either way and not significantly affect the process.

In the class structure of Smart America, meritocrats occupy an important level. Above them sit the always-getting-richer very rich, whom they regard with loathing and envy, and at whom they direct a continuous barrage of critical fire. Most of the books and columns and gossip aimed at the 1 percent come from people just a few percentage points belo

With the election around the corner and Hillary in the middle of a nasty primary fight, Brock now has a seemingly “unbiased” liberal website in his pocket to push pro-Hillary stories.