Summary
In Whigs and Hunters, the English historian E. P. Thompson calls eighteenth-century England a "banana republic," and adds, "The Whigs, in the 1720s, were a curious junta of political speculators and speculative politicians, stock-jobbers, officers grown fat on Marlborough's wars, time-serving dependants in the law and the Church, and great landed magnates." With the Hanoverian kings, Thompson wrote in "Eighteenth-century English Society," came "a new set of courtier-brigands . . . [with] real killings . . . made in the distribution, cornering and sale of goods or raw materials . . . manipulation of credit, and in the seizure of the offices of State" (Journal of Social History, May 1978).
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Anti-Populists Made America Great? It Just Ain't So!
New York Times neoconservative columnist David Brooks dislikes populism ("The Populist Addiction," January 25; www.tinyurl. com/y9yahha) . "Trust your betters and criticize not their deeds," he says in effect. After all, when you become a billionaire, you'll expect others to treat you thus. That any one of us might strike it rich ...
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