Age Quote by Richard Hofstadter

“If it once became general, wealth would confer no distraction. It was possible no doubt to imagine a society in the sense of personal…

— George Orwell

“These romantic visions of the peasantry were constantly undone by contact with reality, often with devastating consequences for their bearers. The populists, who invested…

— Orlando Figes

Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity and the…

— Robert Higgs

In every revolution, there are winners and losers. Every dystopia is a utopia for somebody else. It just depends where you are. Are you…

— Ken Liu

“less in danger of starvation and disease. The Agricultural Revolution certainly enlarged the sum total of food at the disposal of humankind, but the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Thomas Piketty, an economist at the Paris School of Economics, warned in his zeitgeist-shifting book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, that without aggressive government…

— Jane Mayer

The rise of populism is in part a response to stagnating incomes and job loss, owing mostly to new technologies but widely attributed to…

— Richard N. Haass

Economic populism was, pre-Trump, a Midwestern Democrat's bread and butter.

— Mary Katharine Ham

A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to…

— Thomas Frank

“As morally troubling and politically charged as the issue of inequality has become, it's not likely to cause a populist revolt. Most Americans still…

— Robert Frank

As long as inequality and other social problems plague us, populists will try to exploit them.

— Kofi Annan

“From the late 19th century until the 1970s, the advanced societies of the West were all becoming less unequal. Thanks to progressive taxation, government…

— Tony Judt