How America is reverting back to the feudal age

Joel Kotkin
Wed, 25 Dec 2019 14:23:53 -0500

America’s birth represented a dramatic break from the past. Save for a few vestiges of the old European feudal order, mostly in the plantation economy of the Deep South, there was no hereditary nobility, no national church and, thanks to George Washington’s modesty, no royal authority. At least among whites, there was also far less...