What's Wrong With Democracy

Enraging stuff about why rich people are getting so much richer and votin' don't seem to help

I opened Jeffrey Winters’s new book The Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies thinking on the basis of the subtitle, lawks, here’s another book that’s going to be about the awfulness of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, moaning about campaign finance and suchlike. Actually, it’s making a subtler and more systemic argument with great clarity, and it…