We just talked live with author and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos, whose most recent book, The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich, takes readers into the inner world of oligarchs, explores how their efforts to build and hold onto extreme wealth have reshaped our world and the way we experience it, and looks at the political forces that might ultimately break the grip of greed. We talked about:
Why moderate Rockefeller Republicans embraced greed and built the movement that delivered Donald Trump to power
How the ultrarich built a world for themselves where borders are imaginary and laws are optional by imposing blood-and-soil nationalism and ever-stricter law-and-order on the masses
Why it will take people power to prevail — and why it’s so important to look back at the end of the Gilded Age and the reforms of the Progressive Era right now
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