| 单词 | plutocratic |
| 例句 | Reporters tantalized their readers with stories about the “plutocratic Osage” and the “red millionaires,” with their brick-and-terra-cotta mansions and chandeliers, with their diamond rings and fur coats and chauffeured cars. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The philosopher George Santayana’s novel “The Last Puritan,” published in 1935, portrayed this coddling and deforming as a plutocratic corruption of the original Puritan, communal covenants of Harvard and Yale. The coddling of the conservative mind 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z It was also contentious, to say the least, in design terms – enough to cause apoplexy among local residents in plutocratically genteel South Kensington. The V&A goes underground with shortlisted designs for new gallery 2011-03-03T16:50:41Z There’s the “back door,” which you unlock with traditional plutocratic gestures, such as making a generous donation to the college. The college-admissions scandal rattled rich parents. But will it change them? 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z The reason it will win, though, is that the new American political regime is overtly racist, homophobic, and plutocratic, and many Hollywood people, like many people everywhere, are justly disgusted and angry. My 2017 Oscar Predictions 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z In this increasingly plutocratic era, there was a retro quality to the way Mr. Eustis bounced around the room in his seersucker suit. Meryl Streep’s Newest Role: Donald Trump (but Just for One Night) 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Kuttner also faults Obama for appointing too many top officials from Wall Street and for giving “insufficient attention to the plutocratic assault on working Americans of all races.” If Liberalism Is in Crisis, Who’s to Blame? 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z The sanitization of American politics in sport, like the celebration of militarism, illuminates the profound connection between corporate sponsorship and plutocratic governance. Matt Lauer, pleasant corporate stooge: America’s double standard on politicizing the Olympics 2014-02-14T16:34:00Z Others assailed her for preaching a “plutocratic” feminism focusing on the problems of the rich and powerful. Juggling mums and halo dads 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Founded in 1889, it’s one of the remnants of a co-op system once established to share profits for farmers, before it turned plutocratic. 'They're behaving as capitalists': the film inspired by Iceland's farming stranglehold 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Given that we also see Malcolm Tucker/Martin detonate himself and blow up the top floors of Serac’s HQ, where does our plutocratic bad guy stand at the end of episode five? Westworld recap: season 3, episode 5 – panic on the streets of LA 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z If Darlene really is continuing the group’s mission of toppling the corporate, plutocratic order, she’ll certainly be living in a nice fantasy. Mr Robot: what we know about season two 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Could Jordan Roth, the play’s producer, recall another show where he’d conceived of asking for such a big chunk of time from such a plutocratic and perpetually impatient crowd? A Marathon Opening Day (and Night) for ‘Angels in America’ 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z If Mr. Trump’s plutocratic cabinet choices are any guide, the rich who buy art here might soon pay even less tax than they do now. Politics and Commerce Collide at Art Basel Miami Beach 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Left-wing populism is dyadic—it champions the masses against plutocratic elites or, as with Scottish nationalism, a foreign elite. A perfectly timed book on populism 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z A house like a shoddy wooden crate inside a paling fence abuts on one of the plutocratic palaces; pavements alternate with dusty stretches of unmade road. Eadweard Muybridge 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z Rocha’s hectic drama is, in effect, a political Western that rages at Brazil’s governmental corruption and plutocratic oppression but also despairs of demagogic remedies. Movies 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Reporters tantalized their readers with stories about the “plutocratic Osage” and the “red millionaires,” with their brick-and-terra-cotta mansions and chandeliers, and with their diamond rings, fur coats, and chauffeured cars. The Marked Woman 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z And with his own complicity in mind, one place Andersen does break some new ground is in the portrayal of the shameful liberal complicity that was essential to the long plutocratic hijacking. Kurt Andersen Asks: What Is the Future of America? 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z A socialist since college, Mr. Jacobs sees his family’s “extreme, plutocratic wealth” as both a moral and economic failure. The Rich Kids Who Want to Tear Down Capitalism 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z The real UFOs at Frick Madison, expected in the first quarter of 2021, may therefore be the decorative arts: all those gilded clocks, all that Meissen porcelain, relocated from plutocratic salons into cubes of concrete. 11 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2021 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z These policies are incredibly favorable to the plutocratic fortunes that are funding the movement. Trump's Christian right worships power more than they worship God 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z He has turned the indictments into fundraising gold, no small matter under a plutocratic political system that has created "the best democracy that money can buy." Democratic wishcasting: The one argument that might persuade GOP voters against Trump 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z But that in turn opened the door for a plutocratic backlash, using the Republican Party as a vehicle and dividing the Democratic coalition by way of the "Southern strategy." A short history of civilizational collapse: Are we next — and how can we prevent it? 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z Masters of the Universe such as Singer and Crow and their plutocratic familiars are far too slick to get caught arm-twisting a Supreme Court Justice. Closing out a Supreme Court term tainted by corruption 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z You describe four main kinds of elites — military, ideological, administrative and plutocratic — any of which may predominate in a given polity and even persist across cycles. Welcome to the "End Times": Peter Turchin saw this coming — and says we can still prevent collapse 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Fox was essentially founded to carry out the right-wing strategy of pushing plutocratic policy while winning over working-class white Americans with intolerance and conspiracy theories. Plutocratic power and its perils | Paul Krugman 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Sanders calls for “real politics,” an undeluded coming together of working people to confront Big Pharma, Big Finance, the insurance industry, the “corporate elite” — the forces that are turning the country into a plutocratic oligarchy. Perspective | Carter, Bernie, Reagan: Who is the best audiobook narrator? 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Indeed, Russia’s plutocratic class might be particularly vulnerable to this approach. Want to rein in Russian oligarchs? Target the wealth managers, study says. 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Moreover, extending the Trump tax cuts sounds pretty plutocratic: By far, the biggest benefits would go to higher-income households, according to estimates from the Tax Policy Center. Opinion | Here’s a dirty little secret about Trump’s tax cuts 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Democrats have an opportunity to expand and strengthen their base by speaking clearly to how economic justice and democracy are inexorably linked in the moral struggle against the Republican fascists and their plutocratic agenda. What Democrats should have learned from the midterms: It's time to fight for justice 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z But it isn’t a simple story of plutocratic rule. Plutocratic power and its perils | Paul Krugman 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Republican elites and gatekeepers have clearly grown tired of what they now see as Donald Trump's limitations in advancing their plutocratic or semi-fascistic political agenda. Yes, plenty of Republicans want to topple the king — but he won't go easily 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z Mr. Romney, a traditional Republican with a plutocratic veneer, lost Pennsylvania to President Barack Obama. Democrats See a Blueprint in Fetterman’s Victory in Pennsylvania 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z New Money, fueled by tech, finance, oil, celebrity, etc., creates new markets for ultra-luxe goods and services, displacing older, aristocratic conventions with newer, plutocratic ones. What hip-hop bling reveals about American status anxiety 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z You use the term "plutocratic populist partnership" in talking about the GOP. How the states went nuts: Democratic backsliding in state capitals — and how to defeat it 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z They are authoritarians, trying to impose an apartheid Christian fascist plutocratic state on the American people. The fall of Roe v. Wade will only embolden the fascists: How will America respond? 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z We have a two-front "war" to fight, both against brutal fascism abroad and the plutocratic, neoliberal version metastasizing right here at home. We must defeat the enemies of democracy — but that doesn't just mean Putin 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z "So we have tens of millions of people in the precariat economy that are just vulnerable to whatever is going to happen next because our political system is so plutocratic, rotten and nasty," said Sachs. COVID's pre-existing condition: Pandemic has been devastating for the poor 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Americans like to imagine themselves as the heroes of action movies, but most will quickly acclimate to the country's new fascist plutocratic regime, if or when it comes to pass. Can American democracy escape the doom loop? So far, the signs are not promising 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z It was always the political task of a president proud to be called “Middle-Class Joe” to call the bluff of this plutocratic populism. Opinion | Democrats avoided defeating themselves. Now they must defeat the plutocratic populists. 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z Trump World is an apartheid society, a Christian nationalist theocracy and a plutocratic oligarchy. "Trump World" is no joke — and it wants to devour American democracy 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z The end goal of this anti-democratic campaign is to turn the United States into a plutocratic theocratic fascist state where dissent is not allowed and the Trump-Republican Party rules uncontested. Dr. John Gartner on America after Trump: "Dystopian science fiction ... is actually happening" 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z Brown’s book, which comes out on Tuesday, is about a mind-blowing case of plutocratic corruption, full of noirish subplots that may never be fully understood. Opinion | A Reporter’s Fight to Expose Epstein’s Crimes — and Earn a Living 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z The predictable outcome is the peoples' democratic will is smothered, if not wholly ignored by elected officials; what political scientists describe as "plutocratic populism" is doing the work of American neofascism and autocracy. Upper-class traitor Chuck Collins on how "wealth hoarding" will create more Trumps 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z One major party already offers plutocratic giveaways while claiming to help the working class. Opinion | A New Year’s goal for progressives: Stop advocating bailouts for rich people 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z “You can use the cultural animus foil to hide a lot of plutocratic policy,” said Hammond, who has advised Hawley’s office. Josh Hawley led the GOP push for stimulus checks. Where else will he take his party? 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z The bulk of the book, though, is a greatest-hits summary of the plutocratic takeover of America. Review: How Reagan and the finance bros gave us Trump 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z But her death is also an opportunity for the right to advance its plutocratic anti-human agenda more generally. Tim Wise on Trump, RBG and why we must fight to save multiracial democracy 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Donald Trump is a prime example of that corrupt and dangerous plutocratic class. Upper-class traitor Chuck Collins on how "wealth hoarding" will create more Trumps 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z As described by Yale University's Jacob Hacker and University of California, Berkeley's Paul Pierson in their important new book, Let Them Eat Tweets, the plutocrats invented "plutocratic populism," making strident, alarmist appeals to white identity. Plutocrats control the U.S. political system, but they can still be defeated 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z The conservative party may choose to offer material benefits to the nonelite classes, but that risks angering their plutocratic backers, and in any case left-wing parties inevitably will offer more. Review | Explaining the GOP’s mix of plutocrats and populists 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z In all, the Age of Trump is the apotheosis of a plutocratic, white supremacist kakistocracy. Rev. Dr. William Barber II: Only a "major moral revival and revolution" can defeat Trump 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z But their response shows just how under-resourced the reformers are compared with those defending the GOP and its plutocratic achievements. Review | Can Democrats save democracy — or even their own party? 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z By accepting the lie that everyone does better when the economy does better, both parties paved the way for the extremism of a plutocratic presidency. Trump's greatest vulnerability is the economy – just ask poor Americans | Reverend William Barber 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z It’s a belief that many of his plutocratic peers share, says Dalio. 'It's not fair, it's not productive': the billionaire investor urging capitalism to reform 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z It's legitimate to note that many billionaires use their wealth to advance right-wing causes and entrench plutocratic privilege, while Steyer and Bloomberg seem devoted to defeating Donald Trump and benefiting others. Your guide to the 2020 Democrats: Who's in, who's out, WTF is going on anyway? 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z In “Goliath,” the convergence is between the plutocratic, laissez-faire right and the socialist left, both of which accept large, powerful institutions. Review | A history of America’s fight against monopolies 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Popular engagement has become a necessary face, or fate, of any current art-making that isn’t adjudicated by a plutocratic market. The Exuberance of MOMA’s Expansion 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Smith’s association with the Democrats’ plutocratic wing turned him into a marginal figure in the party. Column: The Democrats' Wall Street wing hates Elizabeth Warren. They hated the New Deal too 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z “A plutocratic predator was welcomed into a citadel of American thinking and doing, and this welcome was personally exploited beyond the original relationship,” he wrote. Jeffrey Epstein’s Donations Create a Schism at M.I.T.’s Revered Media Lab 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Because their plutocratic politics was so unpopular, the Kochs were advised to appear more socially aware and benevolent. The Koch Brothers tried to build a plutocracy in the name of freedom | Nathan Robinson 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Income distribution in China, it turns out, is even more skewed than in the United States, approaching the sort of levels one finds in the plutocratic republics of Latin America. The Rich Can’t Get Richer Forever, Can They? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z A few folk question this very public display of plutocratic piety, but we are of course professional malcontents. The lesson from the ruins of Notre Dame: don’t rely on billionaires | Aditya Chakrabortty 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z The candidate himself was largely artificial, “a product that was packaged, marketed, and sold to America,” Reid writes, yet one savvy enough to stoke the base while implementing a conventionally plutocratic agenda. Review | How would we repair the damage in a post-Trump America? 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z This failure of governance and plutocratic takeover is followed by threats of overwhelming political destruction, and, in the final stages, violence often takes over. How republics die 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z If strategic rivalry, existential fear and plutocratic caprice were the only narratives science fiction had lent the moon, one might feel justified in taking a dim view of the whole affair. Lunacy: how science fiction is powering the new moon rush 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z Why, then, when Veblen saw America’s plutocratic bent so clearly, is he now neglected? The man who saw Trump coming a century ago 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z “Progressive neoliberalism” might sound self-contradictory, she notes, but it “combined an expropriative, plutocratic economic program with a liberal-meritocratic politics of recognition,” such that: Time for a change: Can 2020 Democrats break free from the failures of neoliberalism? 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z This happens often enough that when you see an act of plutocratic generosity you should at a minimum be skeptical. Anand Giridharadas: 'What wealthy people do is rig the discourse' 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z But Sanders is the perfect weapon against Trump’s plutocratic “populism”. Why Bernie Sanders' radicalism can take out Trump | Nathan Robinson 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z On the one hand, they have been victims of a great plutocratic theft, like everybody else over the last generation. Fightback against the billionaires: the radicals taking on the global elite 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Which raises a question for all of us: are we ready to hand over our future to the plutocratic elites, one supposedly world-changing initiative at a time? The new elite’s phoney crusade to save the world – without changing anything 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z That in combination with his plutocratic tendencies suggests that he will neither raise income taxes nor reduce the fiscal handouts to large defense contractors. How is trade working out for you, President Trump? 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z One theft – the one I think is genuine and real – is the plutocratic theft. Anand Giridharadas: 'What wealthy people do is rig the discourse' 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z It was no wonder that industrial-age thinking was riddled with contradictions: it reflected what Anderson called “the plutocratic reversal” of classical liberal ideas. The Philosopher Redefining Equality 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z It’s also a result of plutocratic biases baked into the public policies that structure how philanthropy operates. Perspective | Plutocratic politics and the age of gilded giving 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z He became the chief salesman for the theory, rife among plutocratic change agents, that what is best for powerful him is best for the powerless too. The new elite’s phoney crusade to save the world – without changing anything 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z The Trump team is also making structural changes to restrict the ways that ordinary citizens can, in the future, challenge such a plutocratic form of government. Trump’s new (non-Democratic) normal 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Attorney for the Southern District of New York, jokingly fantasized, on Twitter, about Jeff Bezos buying the platform and then deleting Trump’s account, Greenwald described this as “moronic, plutocratic dreck” and added “#Resist.” Glenn Greenwald, the Bane of Their Resistance 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z This is the only way to describe its ability to attract working-class whites, mostly in the rural areas of the United States, to its plutocratic causes. America’s fifth column 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Its plutocratic policies and libertarian ethos are immune to all appeals of human solidarity. Opinion | The New York Yankees Are a Moral Abomination 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z With the benefit of lavish campaign spending by plutocratic front groups, they won statewide power over the decades. Perspective | This was the most gutting month for liberals in half a century 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z But the plutocratic commerce secretary was not troubled. Opinion | Trump says trade wars are ‘easy.’ Here come the first American casualties. 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z He is also nervous about the growing number of Democratic billionaires who are wading into politics and pushing the party toward more plutocratic policies. Analysis | The Daily 202: Why Bernie Sanders won’t join the Democratic Party 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z An Economist reviewer called Dr. Dawisha’s book “a guide to the crony capitalism that grew out of the nexus of Mr Putin’s plutocratic interests, his shady past and authoritarian rule.” Karen Dawisha, scholar who examined financial dealings of Putin’s inner circle, dies at 68 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z This would make the existing GOP tax overhaul even more plutocratic, since households making more than $1 million account for about two-thirds of all capital-gains income, according to the Internal Revenue Service. Opinion | The United States is mortgaging its future 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Whether capitalist or communist, democratic, autocratic, or plutocratic, it will exist. Wealth inequality is soaring – here are the 10 reasons why it’s happening | Dominic Frisby 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Wouldn't it be an advantage for GOP candidates to spend their time distancing themselves from Trump stylistically, and NOT have to justify their plutocratic, anti-American policies? After Stormy Daniels, Republicans Face a Referendum on Trump’s Conduct 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z You almost begin to wonder if creating all those Syrian refugees into Europe is some kind of US plutocratic cnspiracy to sabotage European social democracies. Kidnapped Royalty Become Pawns in Iran’s Deadly Plot 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Further cuts, especially if they target capital gains, are likely to be similarly plutocratic: Households making more than $1 million account for about two-thirds of all capital-gains income, according to IRS data. Opinion | Get ready. Republicans want to cut taxes again. 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The huge increase is partly driven by the ginormous, plutocratic tax cut Congress passed in December, as well as less-noticed, smaller rounds of tax cuts that have passed since then. Opinion | Republicans’ fiscal flip-flop is breathtakingly ill-timed 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z “Trump is among the beneficiaries of modern America’s silent plutocratic system of redistribution upward,” Johnston concludes, and he is governing accordingly. Review | American democracy is on a break. Welcome to ‘Trumpocracy.’ 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z To listen to Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders, the tax overhaul that Trump just signed into law is no mere plutocratic folly. Histrionics won’t defeat Trump 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Every Democrat in every state and congressional district will now use every speech, every TV ad and every tweet to rile up populist anger at your plutocratic vision of American capitalism. Perspective | The GOP tax bill – and the class war it’s unleashed in America 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z What drives many elected Republicans to embody every destructive, plutocratic stereotype? Opinion | Republicans had a chance to reject their inner plutocrat. They blew it. 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z The evidence shows that the current GOP proposals, when fully implemented, would actually raise taxes on millions of middle-class households, but at least in their public talking points, Republican officials try to avoid sounding plutocratic. Grassley blasts working class for spending on booze, women, and movies 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Trump’s rhetoric is populist and nativist, his urges autocratic, his policies plutocratic, his mandate democratic. Review | American democracy is on a break. Welcome to ‘Trumpocracy.’ 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Is it that the Republican Party is cleverly and successfully hoodwinking its supporters, promising them populism and enacting plutocratic capitalism instead? Opinion | Maybe Trump knows his base better than we do 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z In answering his title’s question, Frank argued that hardworking heartland Americans were being duped by a Republican Party that whipped up culture-war frenzy to disguise its plutocratic aims. Opinion | What’s the Matter With Republicans? 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z What will happen if the establishment Republicans using Trump to achieve their own plutocratic agenda decide they no longer need him? Charles Blow: Trump is building an army for a second Civil War 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z He is a plutocratic fascist who does not respect democracy. There’s a legacy of people resisting white supremacy in the US. Antifa is not new. 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z This self-absorbed cabal of spoiled plutocratic brats intends to abandon our nation’s core democratic principle of “We’re all in this together.” Betsy DeVos’ plan to sell out public schools is a Koch Brothers dream come true 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z In the United States, Trump is leading something that is best described as plutocratic populism, a mixture of traditional populist causes with extreme libertarian ones. Opinion | Maybe Trump knows his base better than we do 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Trump’s actions on Monday are but one more reminder that he is a plutocratic authoritarian with no regard or respect for basic norms of democracy or human decency. Groveling before the mad king: Donald Trump’s Cabinet of sycophants 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z President Trump is a plutocratic authoritarian whose leadership style and personal brand are centered upon violent, predatory masculinity. Republican reaction to Alexandria shootings: Massive hypocrisy and loose talk of “terrorism” 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z In keeping with his plutocratic authoritarianism, Trump has targeted journalists and the news media as “traitors” and “enemies” of the American people. Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Donald Trump “looks like Mussolini” but can be overcome 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z Trump is a plutocratic authoritarian who was installed in office with the apparent aid of a foreign power, Russia. Former FBI double agent who outfoxed the Russians offers an explanation for Trump: “The simple fact could be that someone’s a crook” 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z As demonstrated by his words, deeds, and political agenda, Donald Trump is a plutocratic authoritarian and a fascist. From Russia with hate: Donald Trump’s catastrophic presidency offers more proof that racism and sexism are destroying America 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z In all, it was a macabre and perverse bacchanal of plutocratic greed and civic irresponsibility. The Republican Party is sociopathic: If you didn’t know that already, the health care bill should make it clear 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z The often-cynical negotiation between populist electioneering and plutocratic governance on the right has long been not so much a matter of policy as it has been a matter of show business. I Thought I Understood the American Right. Trump Proved Me Wrong. 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z In the petit-bourgeois, confidently philistine milieu in which I grew up, plutocratic values held a firm purchase. Trump and the Plutocrat’s Hubris 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z All of which is to say: Just as all of Trump’s health-care promises proved impossible to square, so too will his tax populism collide with the plutocratic reality of his true priorities. Opinion | Think tax reform will be easy for Trump? Ha, ha. 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z The resulting retreat of the state left middle-class lives far more precarious, vulnerable to predatory plutocratic elites from above and criminal insurgencies from below. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: The plutocratic evil twins claim to stand against the neoliberal economic order (they don’t) 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Aside from his tax plan itself, nothing says trickle-down economics more loudly than the most plutocratic Cabinet in history. What populist revolution? So far Donald Trump is supercharging the failed Republican policies of the past 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Most strikingly, they can also look to Britain, where plutocratic censorship has the potential to go further than anywhere else in the west. How our laws inspired Trump’s attack on free speech | Nick Cohen 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z But it was the plutocratic Donald who enjoyed the last laugh. Illness as indicator 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z That is the twin insurgency in a nutshell: predatory plutocratic elites above, criminal insurgencies below and an increasingly insecure immiserated middle class caught in between. Donald Trump and the “twin insurgency”: He’s half plutocrat, half criminal and entirely ruthless 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z But as far as plutocratic politics is concerned, it’s not as bad as people in China imagine. Interpreting the U.S. Presidential Race for Chinese: It’s Not Really Like ‘House of Cards’ 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z There’s not a single populist muscle in Donnie’s whole plutocratic body. Sorry, people: Donnie is a Trumpist, not a populist 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z Keep an eye on Donald Trump Jr. Whatever happens in November, however a defeated Donald Trump would handle being a loser, Trump Jr. doesn’t seem like someone who’s inclined to fade away into plutocratic obscurity. Beware Donald Trump Jr. 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z His candidacy is contrasted with the avarice of the plutocratic/oligarchic corporate state. Ralph Nader to Bernie Sanders: 'It Ain't Over Til It's Over' 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Trump has sometimes acted like a pure plutocratic insurgent. Donald Trump and the “twin insurgency”: He’s half plutocrat, half criminal and entirely ruthless 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Perhaps the United States’ more vigorous economy allowed the plutocratic equilibrium to survive. We’ve Seen the Trump Phenomenon Before 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z They’ve single-mindedly pushed a plutocratic agenda of trade scams, tax cuts for the rich, and subsidies for runaway corporations, while constantly slashing at Social Security, Medicare, and other programs that their own non-affluent voters need. They created this nightmare for themselves: The clueless GOP establishment is fueling hurricane Donald Trump 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z True, Romney is not an ideal messenger, tarnished as he is among the GOP base because he lost the 2012 presidential race and because many suspect he is a plutocratic Republican In Name Only. Romney attacks Trump — but shows Republicans haven’t learned their lesson 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z So, is the age of plutocratic politics over? Is This the End of Big-Money Politics? 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The opposition was fierce: A plutocratic alliance of Northeastern financiers, railroad corporations and their political allies in both parties painted the Populists as dangerously radical. Democrats shouldn’t fear Sanders’s talk of revolution. Their party was built on it. 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z The plutocratic class, spanning from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, manipulate politicians to get whatever they want, while the rest of us get almost nothing for our votes. In the age of all-American anger: Bernie Sanders, “The Big Short” & a nation that’s had it up to here 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z The Koch brothers are slightly less subtle, funding organizations like the Mercatus Center, which unabashedly support a plutocratic agenda. The secrets behind the Koch brothers: Inside the remarkable new book that details their dirtiest deeds 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z He disputed the idea there was a disconnect between plutocratic trophy safari hunts in Africa and folksy pheasant hunts on Iowa farms – and said his big game hunts played an important role in conservation. Donald Trump's sons hunt pheasants ahead of Iowa caucus: 'They're hardcore' 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z The sons’ role is, in part, to demonstrate that there is an authentic middle-American relatability beneath Mr. Trump’s plutocratic exterior: They hunt, too. Trump’s Sons Are Still Stumping for Dad, Far Off the Trail 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z The boorish, megalomaniac, plutocratic persona has pervaded all these shades of Trump, alongside Trump the bully, Trump the ham, and so on. The secret meanings of “Trump”: Why it’s time to give Donald the “Rick Santorum” treatment 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Instead, we face a subtler but equally pernicious rise of a plutocratic class capturing private benefits for personal gain. Money can’t buy Jeb Bush the White House, but it still skews politics 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Now that he’s aligned himself with a tax plan that is not only plutocratic but generically Republican, it simply can’t be done. Donald Trump’s tax scheme screw-up: Why his plan is bad for him and the GOP both 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Not all objects in the garden have come from plutocratic palaces. Tumult in a Manhattan Oasis Over an Affordable Housing Plan 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Contrary to age-old anti-Semitic propaganda, the wealthy are a small minority of all Jews, but among all Americans, this is a plutocratic age. On the Iran deal, American Jewish ‘leaders’ don’t speak for most Jews 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Because that is the moment when it becomes clear that Gingrich is criticizing individual donors, not the whole plutocratic system. Newt Gingrich’s phony populism: The real reason he’s worried about “oligarchy” 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Well, their survey is technically a list of questions, but it reads more like the terms of agreement to a plutocratic ideological platform. The Kochs dictate their terms: What their new GOP candidate quiz says about the plutocrats’ agenda 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z But even though Trump’s plutocratic tax plan doesn’t necessarily tell us much about him, it does tell us something important about the Republican Party and the conservative movement. Donald Trump’s tax scheme screw-up: Why his plan is bad for him and the GOP both 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z In contrast, Montgomery’s public financing system empowers the people by amplifying their voices above the plutocratic din. Counter plutocracy with public financing 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z On the other side is the plutocratic vision of limited upward mobility and a permanent ruling class. Why does the GOP hate college? 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z Founded by Charles Camille Heidsieck in 1851 it became, in the prosperous years of American industrialization following the Civil War, America’s most popular Champagne, and the ultimate symbol of plutocratic excess. Best Champagne You've Never Heard Of #8 -- Champagne Charlie's Legacy 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z And this is obviously a stunning indictment of the current system of plutocratic capitalism so being on the revolution! What Jolly Japes With US GDP Figures 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Liza explained: “In 300 years, the Castor's plutocratic elite formed monopolies on air, water and food supplies, so now they leverage their 'customer base' to gain a fraction of stock advantage against their corporate enemies.” The archive personality protocol : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z And the only part that the plutocrats holding the debt fail to realize, and this plutocratic mouthpiece fails to mention is that they are overtly wrong. The James Dean Movie That Explains the Greek Debt Negotiations 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z That still requires the legal ability to form unions — a goal that eludes workers in our plutocratic age. Workers — not employers — are the real wage movers and shakers 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z One thing did hugely amuse me which was that Klein’s major criticism of the book seems to be that the author didn’t talk to her enough about modern day fighters against plutocratic capitalism. I'm Not Sure That Naomi Klein Actually Understands Economics All That Well 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Whatever this may add up to, it seems to be based, at least in part, on the increasing concentration of wealth and power in a new plutocratic class and in that ever-expanding national security state. 5 signs America is devolving into a plutocracy 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z The original source of this claim is the World Economic Forum, the people who organise that party for the plutocratic classes at Davos each year. Latest Predictions From WEF About Workplace Gender Gap 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Both men, in their own ways, are part of the plutocratic revolt against democracy that Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman unmasks in his New York Times column this morning. Paul Krugman’s fear: “It’s by no means clear” whether democracy or plutocracy will prevail in America 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Will Democrats end up winning the political spending wars, thanks to their own plutocratic donor base? Money matters less in politics 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z But the plutocratic wing of the Democratic Party hasn’t breathed its last, and the latest centrist attack on progressive populism is a real doozy. The progressives are coming!: Why the latest attempt to “save” Democrats from populism is so pathetic 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z One photo shows Hanauer looking nonchalantly plutocratic and tanned in a black blazer outside that seedy McDonald’s at Seattle’s most lawless corner, 3rd and Pine, as some local proles schlump by in the background. The middle class’ most unlikely advocate: a mega-millionaire 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z Or the inability of national governments to adequately reward risk, but also - and most importantly - avoid surfeit revenues to accrue in the hands of a plutocratic minority. Book clubs: Reading "Capital": Chapters 5 and 6 2014-04-03T16:51:47Z You can build a plutocratic model that will stumble along just fine, like it did in the nineteenth century. Plutocracy without end: Why the 1 percent always defeats the middle class 2014-03-30T11:00:00Z The decision, everyone agreed, would unleash a tsunami of corporate and plutocratic money into politics, giving Republicans a huge spending advantage. Money matters less in politics 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and decades of economic anemia in Russia that followed for everyone except plutocratic oligarchs, it’s easier to understand Putin’s successful military roll. Looking at the World Through Putin’s Pupils 2014-03-25T00:55:01Z In the process, he provided a reminder that for all the political obituaries written about Mitt Romney, the plutocratic politics of berating the so-called 47 percent still persists. Good riddance, plutocrats! Demolishing the 1 percent’s class war 2013-09-10T13:42:00Z It is tempting to delight in that difference — plutocratic chauvinism growing red-faced when exposed to the gender egalitarianism of the 99 percent. Way of the World: Sexist Mores of Super-Rich Hurt Us All 2013-05-30T12:42:18Z A plutocratic system veiled as a democracy, Colonialism within its own shores. Margaret Thatcher: A cut above the rest 2013-04-08T16:13:04Z In modern, plutocratic times these players would by now be established in the Premier League. Bradford City give Capital One Cup final a lift from below stairs 2013-02-22T11:56:11Z Essentially Stevens advises Republicans to stick to their elitist, plutocratic guns, because the Democrats won’t have a charismatic black guy fronting for them in 2016. Stuart Stevens, delusional jackass 2012-11-28T19:25:00Z In the late 19th century Sea Gate boasted plutocratic property owners like the Vanderbilt and Morgan families, but a real estate company bought the land and then sold it to a homeowners association in 1899. New York City Enclaves, Long Gated, Seek to Let In Storm Aid 2012-11-27T02:47:43Z He rattled off the plutocratic math: The wealthiest 500 filers in the city pay 15 percent of the city’s total income tax. Gotham: Where Michael R. Bloomberg Sees Clear Fiscal Skies, Clouds Gather 2012-10-16T05:20:13Z In Tianjin, captains of industry slurped noodles with cabinet ministers, charity bosses bent plutocratic ears and “young global leaders” partied. Schumpeter: The summer Davos blues 2012-09-13T15:03:53Z The sight of wealthy tradesfolk and of plutocratic contractors seems to have warmed Macaulay into an enthusiasm which became eloquent in enlarging upon the rows of villas that encircle every great town. The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old 2012-03-25T02:00:04.800Z The late Lord Carnarvon was not so infected by the plutocratic idleness of Eton as to miss when at Christ Church the highest honours of the Classical Schools. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z It is only of late years that this plutocratic arrangement has been discontinued in the University. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z But among his plutocratic peers, he said, that is very much a minority opinion. Way of the World: Brake-Time Looms for Tax Breaks 2012-01-26T15:10:11Z Glad as most of us would be to deprive plutocratic pirates of what they have not earned, we still do not care to upset the fundamentals of our social system in the process. Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive 2011-11-19T03:00:28.253Z It sought to establish freedom; it has only established plutocratic tyranny. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z Three thousand pounds scarcely represent what could be regarded as a plutocratic investment. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z A smart chauffeur waited with a plutocratic car in the sweep of the drive. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z This kind of revolution, with the military genius of Cleomenes to give it strength and brilliancy, attracted men's minds far more than the constitutional, but somewhat torpid and plutocratic, League. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z It has torn the mask of hypocrisy from these plutocratic professional politicians and revealed them in their true character. The Pullman Boycott A Complete History of the R.R. Strike 2011-05-02T02:00:15.510Z A former Wall Streeter himself, Daley's role seems to be to reassure our plutocratic overlords that they have nothing to fear from Obama. Bachmann doubles down on "gangster government" claim 2011-03-07T01:07:00Z There is not, nor has there ever been, the slightest danger of the Etonian or Harrovian of the old aristocratic order being corrupted by plutocratic schoolfellows. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z One would never, ever find in The New York Times such a sweeping denunciation of the plutocratic corruption and merger of private wealth and political power that shapes most of America's political culture. The Egyptian mirror 2011-02-07T10:08:00Z He expected a belle vue, not a good plain plutocratic American street. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z Oh, it's a fine mess we smart Alexanders of the hour have got ourselves into in our effort to establish a pipe line between the plutocratic pocketbook and the United States Treasury. Half-Hours with the Idiot 2011-01-22T03:00:18.853Z It is the product of a real democracy and of that alone; and in this country, as we become more and more plutocratic, the respect for women diminishes. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z People seem awfully gloomy this new year – if it's not the VAT rise, it's the cuts, and if it's not those, then it's the mad, plutocratic government with its whirlwind "reforms". Bankers think growth will go on for ever, but that's a fantasy 2011-01-06T09:00:02Z The arguments against the Budget were characteristic of their plutocratic origin. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z In the present environment of organizational weakness and plutocratic power, it is not clear that leaders as great as Lincoln or Franklin Roosevelt would be able to get things done. Nobody represents the American people 2010-12-07T12:01:00Z New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently revealed the plutocratic perspective on immigration when he defended illegal immigration by asking, "Who takes care of the greens and the fairways in your golf course?" Are the American people obsolete? 2010-07-27T13:01:00Z Profound respect shown to woman as woman is incompatible with a society founded upon an aristocratic, plutocratic, or caste system. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Those whom Jackson called “the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers” ought to be generating substantial political pressure to exact reparations from, and impose severe new regulations on, the plutocratic few. Meacham: The Right Kind of American Populism 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z The Budget of 1909, which tempted a plutocratic House of Lords into a rashness which an aristocratic House of Lords had never ventured to display, was a clear expression of the new Liberal principles. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z Jay Weiser, who teaches law at Baruch College, cautioned Mr. Goldsmith that “our politics is dynastic when not plutocratic or kleptocratic.” NYC: New Yorkers Offer Tips for New Deputy Mayor 2010-05-04T00:51:00Z Obama, she adds, belongs to a plutocratic cabal that manufactures crises for personal profit, foisting scams like health care reform and global warming on U.S. taxpayers to depress the economy. Will Virginia Tea Party Politics Help or Hurt the GOP? 2010-03-11T16:40:00Z The Partnership for New York City, a plutocratic chamber of commerce, recently met with the senior senator. 2010-02-05T03:46:00Z These provincial societies, as we have already seen, were organised on aristocratic or plutocratic principles. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius An aristocratic form with a democratic suffrage is a plutocratic government. Races and Immigrants in America Archbishop Ireland, the plutocratic prelate, will cheerfully certify to Roosevelt as the anointed of the Lord. Labor and Freedom "It's perfectly charming, but it looks a bit plutocratic from my humble attic point of view." Cinderella Jane My own knowledge of the divine art of singing, as I have confessed a thousand times, amounts to little or nothing, but I found something pleasurable in listening to the plutocratic contralto. A Top-Floor Idyl As a democracy it is so far a failure, as democracies must be organised on a plutocratic basis; but it at any rate allows a man to think himself a man. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. “If your mother could have lived just to see the Captain on his grand plutocratic spree, Grant–” said his father. In the Heart of a Fool The place is not frequented by plutocratic tourists, and so her tips are meagre. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland "I rejoice, as an Englishman, that I have done my share for nearly thirty years to expose in Europe, America, and Asia the systematic rascality of my aristocratic and plutocratic countrymen." British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals One not very pleasant aspect of American and other plutocratic competition has been to convert most of the capital old English books from literature into vertu. The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time And don't forget to convey the idea of the whole business being plutocratic. The Message The far-seeing among the business men realized that the plutocratic structure the world over was in peril, and that the fate of the whole imperial régime was involved in the European struggle. The American Empire The real power behind Prohibition is simply the plutocratic power of the pushing employers who wish to get the last inch of work out of their workmen. What I Saw in America But the material in her hands was only combustible in a slow way; the plutocratic conscience is rarely inflammable—for the most part it smolders like punk. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York There have been plutocratic elderly women, uneducated but agreeable, in a hundred novels before this; but I recall few that have been treated so honestly or with so much genuine sympathy. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 They have now added all the bureaucratic tyrannies of a Socialist state to the old plutocratic tyrannies of a Capitalist State. Eugenics and Other Evils The "plutocratic class" consists of that group of persons who control community affairs because they own property. The American Empire Yet we shall not save them by merely sinking into them with the conservative sort of contentment, even if the commercial rapacity of our plutocratic reforms would allow us to do so. What I Saw in America There was one small lamp on the landing, a plutocratic affair independent of shilling meters. The Green Rust It is interwoven with capital, and we have hardly yet reached the point where we can 377see what it will become with great wealth, and under the treatment of a plutocratic class. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals That is the unique tragedy of the plutocratic state to-day; it has no successes to hold up against the failures it alleges to exist in Latin or other methods. Eugenics and Other Evils This plutocratic class is exploiting continental United States and its dependencies. The American Empire I think there are many English journalists who would be more puzzled by so simple an idea as the plutocratic foundation of Prohibition. What I Saw in America Writers who sympathize with the plutocratic side in the quarrel had no difficulty in convicting Jackson of a regrettable ignorance of finance. A History of the United States Olbos was wealth, with grace, opulence, elegance, and generosity, and so wealth when not sordid or arrogant, the opposite of plutocratic. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals That is the second proof of the plutocratic impulse behind all Eugenics: that no one thinks of applying it to the prominent classes. Eugenics and Other Evils Behind them, however, were economic gains—little heralded, but of the most vital consequence to the future of plutocratic power. The American Empire But at least it is only by the decay of modern plutocracy, which seems already to have begun, that the secret of the structure even of this plutocratic palace can stand revealed. What I Saw in America In collaboration with Mr. Belloc he had written "The Party System," in which the plutocratic and corrupt nature of our present polity is set forth. A History of the United States Cabarets were crowded and seats for midnight beauty shows must be secured well in advance or by means of gargantuan tips to plutocratic head waiters. Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. In a moment of vandalism ever to be deprecated, little Erasmus discovered and took possession of that copy of "The National Architect" which contained the picture of the plutocratic villa at Narragansett Pier. The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice All these excellent Canadians, with or without an academic degree, who innocently pride themselves on a proletarian absence of prejudice, are adoptive children of a plutocratic and aristocratic cultivation. The New Society We have seen that in the first instance the new doctrines in England were simply an excuse for a plutocratic pillage, and that is the only truth to be told about the matter. A Short History of England But he also sought to sever its damaging connection with those sordid and unpopular plutocratic combinations which the nation as a whole justly hated. A History of the United States This money which he had just wrested from the claws of the plutocratic dragon must be held as a sacred trust; it must be devoted scrupulously to the cause of the down-trodden and the oppressed. The Price The history of the present French Republic has shown an extraordinary development of plutocratic spirit and measures. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other The true cause of the difficulties in North Africa and the Balkans was in reality the persistent attempts at sabotage and paralyzation of these plutocratic enemies of the fascist people's State. Introduction to Non-Violence The plutocratic government and the Grand Council of Zurich, which had connived with the private banks and railroads, were pulled down in one great voting swoop. Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum The party is not very smart, rather intellectual and plutocratic; well-known musicians and artists in group r., and second-rate literary people l. Masques & Phases Curiously enough, the alternative of another attack upon the plutocratic dragon did not suggest itself. The Price The art of the iconoclasts tells us the story of their days; it is descriptive, official, eclectic, historical, plutocratic, palatial, and vulgar. Art "She isn't ugly," said Atwood, and had a fleeting moment of speculation as to whether Jane with her red hair would fit into his plutocratic future. The Gay Cockade Now-a-days he would have a valet, a secretary, a manager, and a crowd of plutocratic admirers who would load him with money and luxuries. Side Lights He never dreamed either of cutting a figure in plutocratic society or making himself a public character. The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster In this house the corridors were broader, and to the conveniences was added a mail-shoot, a device which is still regarded in Europe as the final word of plutocratic luxury rampant. Your United States Impressions of a first visit Accordingly we find that out of the very bosom of the people a new plutocratic aristocracy begins to rise. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series The Swiss adopted the referendum to save themselves from the lobbying and plutocratic character of their legislatures. Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government Wellses and Lloyd Georges by the dozen without a word of remonstrance from our plutocratic Press, provided the interest is paid punctually. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index The place where the most passionate convictions on this planet are concentrated is not one where it will always be wise, even from a political standpoint, to air our plutocratic patronage and our sceptical superiority. The New Jerusalem "Here you are!" said Etches, with an inattentive, plutocratic gesture handing over a five-pound note. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns Our one-time academic discussion about ways and means has become absurd, in the face of plutocratic savagery. The Air Trust The very next day Mr. Prohack had a plutocratic mood of overbearingness, which led to a sudden change in his location—the same being transferred to Frinton-on-Sea. Mr. Prohack Hence, the popular assembly became virtually the city mob, while the ruling families tended more and more to form a close and greedy and plutocratic oligarchy. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History It was rather the plutocratic princes of Jewry who long hung back and hesitated about Zionism. The New Jerusalem It was as if he ought to blush before his mother for being so plutocratic, his mother who had passed most of her life in hard toil to gain a few shillings a week. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns Academic discussion becomes absurd, in the face of plutocratic savagery. The Air Trust They say business doesn't warrant my present plutocratic income. Starr, of the Desert It also implies a due regard for the fitness of things, therefore due respect to social positions; for these latter express no plutocratic distinctions, but were originally distinctions for actual merit. Bushido, the Soul of Japan I knew that he did not belong to this plutocratic young sporting set, of which he even disapproved. Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 They will be acutely exasperated by every picture of plutocratic luxury in their newspaper, they will readily resort to destructive violence. An Englishman Looks at the World Two years ago such a sum would have lifted her to plutocratic heights, filled her with pleasurable excitement, innumerable anticipations. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest These Oxford men are the Greeks of our plutocratic empire. Tono Bungay I tell you frankly that I'm complaining, not because of the other fellow's colossal fortune, but because I can't strike the plutocratic combination. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 The country editors are forced into a conspiracy of silence and of support of a "machine" as vile as ever was worked under plutocratic auspices. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 From the very beginning, side by side with the State universities, were the universities founded by benefactors; and with the evolution of new centres of population, new and extremely generous plutocratic endowments appeared. An Englishman Looks at the World "Be seated, Mr. Dumont," he said, pointing to a chair just inside the railing—a seat not unworthy of a man of rank in the plutocratic hierarchy, but a man of far from high rank. The Cost The only inference is that for purposes of real public opinion the press is now a mere plutocratic oligarchy. Heretics He realized how necessary he was to his plutocratic master, and he made that master treat him almost as an equal. The Conflict The Moderates, with M. Lindman as Prime Minister, then introduced a Bill incorporating M. Petersson's proposals with the addition of the direct election of provincial councils and a less plutocratic franchise. Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election In the aristocratic countries they forward a public object under the patronage of the nobility and gentry; in a plutocratic country they get the business men to indorse it. A Traveler from Altruria: Romance She asked what route I had come by to America, and she seemed disappointed and aggrieved that we placed the restrictions we have felt necessary upon visitors from the plutocratic world. Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance Such opportunities for falsity, artificiality, downright humbuggery, for plutocratic upholstery and indecorous statues and light-minded paintings, for cynical and insolent servants, for the deployment of vast gains got by methods that at best were questionable! Under the Skylights Fate abruptly gave her the speediest and easiest means to power known in our plutocratic civilization. The Conflict There you stood at the door, placing us; the roses, scattered in plutocratic profusion, had drooped their heads to our hot faces. Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories The universities and institutions of higher learning were in like manner harnessed to the plutocratic chariot by golden chains. Equality I said our own life was so directly reasoned from its economic premises that they could hardly believe the plutocratic life was often an absolute non sequitur of the plutocratic premises. Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance Her plutocratic father-in-law was not permitted to have even that much, and her mother-in-law, who was one of the converts to Vance Thompson's Eat and Grow Thin scriptures, had almost none at all. We Can't Have Everything It is not France, noble and democratic, which inspires these movements, but a plutocratic situation which has taken the same positions, but on worse grounds, as the German metallurgists before the War. Peaceless Europe It is not imaginable that such an enormous plutocratic society as I have supposed could conduct its complex affairs upon the basis of the average intelligence. The Emancipation of Massachusetts In respect especially to their susceptibility to corruption and plutocratic subversion they were the worst kind of government possible. Equality But in this study of the plutocratic mind, always so fascinating to me, I am getting altogether away from what I meant to tell you. Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance Kedzie had to satisfy her plutocratic pride by bossing the waiter about, by complaining that the oysters were not chilled and the sherry was. We Can't Have Everything The new plutocratic conception, which marks the policy of a section of the Entente, is not lasting, and the people have a justifiable diffidence towards it. Peaceless Europe It is not by any means necessary that a plutocratic mass should have a recognized political head. The Emancipation of Massachusetts With more justice may Jane Austen be reproached with having been too much influenced by the prejudices of the somewhat narrow and somewhat vulgarly aristocratic, or rather plutocratic, society in which she lived. Lectures and Essays Still, I think our main impression of American hospitality would be that it was thoroughly infused with the plutocratic principle, and that it meant business. Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance This $25,000,000 swindled from the Government in that one item of ships alone formed the basis of many a present plutocratic fortune. Great Fortunes from Railroads But Italy will never subordinate her recognition to plutocratic considerations. Peaceless Europe Each of these stages corresponds to a different social organization: the pastoral stage was patriarchal, the agricultural stage was feudal, the commercial stage was plutocratic, and the industrial stage leads towards democracy. The History of England - a Study in Political Evolution This they may do without advocating public plunder though it suits plutocratic writers to confound the two. Lectures and Essays You know what the plutocratic principle is, and what the plutocratic civilization should logically be. Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance The fellow with the plutocratic watch took it from his pocket and gazed at it with the eyes of one who is contemplating a great sacrifice. The Rose in the Ring In the case of Russia, she has followed purely plutocratic tendencies. Peaceless Europe At least, I'm sure Max would be very much annoyed with me for unsocially introducing a plutocratic traitor into the bosom of the fold.' Philistia He will surely make her a "good husband" of the plutocratic code. The Midnight Passenger : a novel But the plutocratic civilization is much better than it should logically be, bad as it is; for the personal equation constantly modifies it, and renders it far less dreadful than you would reasonably expect. Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance One of the shivering thieves beside the stove drew forth from a ragged pocket the plutocratic timepiece of a millionaire victim. The Rose in the Ring Foreign observers agree that there is no other existing nation so plutocratic as our own; and wealth here is probably though the matter is in doubt becoming more and more concentrated. Problems of Conduct "A plutocratic party may choose to ignore science, but no labour party can hope to maintain its position unless its proposals are, in fact, the outcome of the best political science of its time." An essay on the American contribution and the democratic idea "What a sham our modern plutocratic life is," bitterly murmured Clayton. The Midnight Passenger : a novel That is, the potentialities of goodness implanted in the human heart by the Creator forbid the plutocratic man to be what the plutocratic scheme of life implies. Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance They were in the carriage, being whirled toward the great palace of Mrs. Whitson, the latest and grandest of plutocratic monuments that have arisen upon the ruins of the old, old-fashioned American Washington. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel A more critical, fastidious, handsome face, paler and colder, without Tanner's impetuous credulity and enthusiasm, and without a touch of his modern plutocratic vulgarity, but still a resemblance, even an identity. Man and Superman The war-cry of the Republicans was the "full dinner pail"; the keynote of Bryan's bid for popular support was opposition to the Republican policy of expansion and criticism of Republican tendencies toward plutocratic control. Theodore Roosevelt and His Times The spirit that emanates from him is so gentle and sweet that it would harm nothing, hurt nobody's feelings save the feelings of a predatory and plutocratic capitalist. The Cruise of the Snark I did not feel bound to defend our customs, and I knew very well that each woman there was imagining herself in our conditions with the curse of her plutocratic tradition still upon her. Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance With the advent of plutocratic fashion respect for official position had dwindled at Washington. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel But, as he well knew, to start a fight in this plutocratic assemblage would mean a jail term. His Dog But I was fearful of offending my one respectable acquaintance, and for weeks struggled on, hampered by this plutocratic appendage. The Angel and the Author, and others And I repeat that, though there are other aspects of the matter of the new plutocratic raid, one of the most important is mere journalistic jealousy. Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays I could give many other instances of this plutocratic assumption behind progressive fads. What's Wrong with the World What his qualities showed him were two things: the alliance of the plutocratic slave power with the plutocratic money power, and the essential rightness in impulse of the bulk of the Southern people. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War How inevitable that course has become to us is plain enough to those who have the power of understanding what they see as they look at the plutocratic societies of our modern capitals. The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring And the most monstrous feature in this enormous meanness may be noted in the plutocratic appeal to science, or, rather, to the pseudo-science that they call Eugenics. Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays But one thing about it which happens to please me particularly was that it was fought, in one aspect at least, on a point such as the plutocratic fool calls unpractical. Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays For instance, there is a plutocratic assumption behind the phrase "Why should woman be economically dependent upon man?" What's Wrong with the World It was because of these views, because he saw slavery allying itself with the spread of plutocratic ideals, that Lincoln entered the battle to prevent its extension. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War But that means higher wages and greater equalisation of wealth; and the plutocratic scientist, with a slightly troubled expression, turns his eyes and pince-nez in another direction. Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays |
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