In pre-revolutionary America, the ruling class governed through the “divine right of kings,” the belief that the King of England was an agent of God, not to be questioned. In modern times ...

The end of the impeachment trial will not end the political crisis. Instead, the bitter divisions in ruling circles will only ...

Written with the characteristic pessimism of the upper-middle-class “left,” the piece obfuscates the growing integration of ...

Burnham understood that political change often results from ... the “circulation of elites” — when a new ruling class takes power from the old ruling class. Holmes’ piece in The National ...

Earth didn’t exactly shake when the New York Yankees announced that they would allow their players to wear beards. However, the change in the half-century-old policy ...

We know in general he was low class, by the standards of the Roman imperial aristocracy or even of the ruling class of Palestine, the Herodian client kings. But he may have been an artisan.

Trump’s inauguration was like the coronation of a king. In his speech, he said he was “saved by God to make America great again.” The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, flashed a Nazi salute. A who’s who ...

The ruling classes had money and power, whilst most of the population were poor, exploited peasant workers or from the working class. These people lived in terrible conditions and what they farmed ...