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 ...

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.

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 ...