MUST-SEE: Jamie Raskin Takes On Elon Musk

Dec 25, 2024 | INTERVIEW: Brian interviews Congressman Jamie Raskin about Elon Musk's takeover of the GOP and his ascent to ranking member of the Judiciary Committee.

I don't know why they keep on using the term oligarchy when the word plutocracy would be far more appropriate. – © Mark Alexander

Please check this out on the difference between an oligarchy and a plutocracy.

Lewis Lapham: Can America Survive the Rule of a “Stupified Plutocracy”?

Oct 24, 2018 • When author and journalist Lewis Lapham, founder of Lapham’s Quarterly and former editor of Harper’s, turned his shrewd gaze on the go-go ‘80s in “Money and Class in America,” he never imagined the era’s avatar of greed would one day become President Donald Trump.

Three decades later, Lapham shares his views on the decades-long deterioration of democracy in an interview with INET’s Lynn Parramore. An expanded and revised edition of his book is now available with a new foreward by Thomas Frank from OR Books.

This Is What a Dance Looks Like in a Plutocracy!

President Trump attended two official inaugural balls, as well as the Armed Services Ball.