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Eugene Robinson’s Gilded-Age Misconceptions

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2025
There is in most Americans some spark of idealism, which can be fanned into a flame. It takes sometimes a divining rod to find what it is; but when found, and that means often, when disclosed to the owners, the results are often extraordinary.
– Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Whitney v. California [1927]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
January 21, 2025
Eugene Robinson’s Gilded-Age Misconceptions
Longtime Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson’s new article about a “second Gilded Age” in America gets it wrong. He writes: “In the first Gilded Age, a few tycoons amassed unimaginable riches — men such as John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt and J.P. Morgan. With their great wealth came great power and influence. When they spoke, presidents listened. On Monday, as a billionaire reassumes the nation’s highest office, in attendance will be…
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