In nimbly reported essays, the New Yorker writer Evan Osnos considers the bizarre spectacles and amoral contortions of the ...

To put it more plainly and aggressively: Can a democracy sustain itself without the help of its rival, apparently its enemy, aristocracy? M. Jaume does not raise this question directly. His book ...

The main consequence of that fact is the growth of an aristocracy founded on force; that is, of an unnatural aristocracy. There is a kind of natural aristocracy in all society. There are natural ...

What if something altogether more malign has taken on the historical powers of aristocracy without its legal and cultural duties? Conservatives are instinctively localist. Yes, there is the High ...

The sons of the aristocracy -- those whose fathers and ancestors have become rich and powerful, either by burdens laid on the people or by wealth taken from them; who dread, beyond all things ...

This form of tyranny, of the appointment and ascendancy of the undeserved, would be later termed by Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Adams as an “artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and ...

There's a book that my friend Pietros Maneos likes called The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy. The book's premise is somewhat debated in light of the fact that the aristocrats are ...

Around these two symbols of aristocracy an epic tale unfolds. The scene shifts to France in 1812. The old Senlis tomb in the monastery is excavated by Gravedigger Jobey. He discovers the battered ...

When we talk about the climate crisis, the blame often trickles downward. Ordinary people are told to recycle more, eat less meat, buy electric cars, and shrink their “carbon footprints ...

Just a few years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the Gilded Age ushered in a Black aristocracy. Many of the Black elite during the time owned retail and grocery stores and ...

THE ADAMS FAMILY—James Truslow Adams—Little, Brown ($4). Says Author James Truslow Adams of the Adams family, “with which I am in no way connected.”: It is the most distinguished in the U.