
The Gilded Glamour Met Gala Was a Fantasia of Inequality
Our second Gilded Age isn’t as enchanting as Condé Nast and celebrity spectacle make it seem – but a red carpet parade while event workers struggle for dignified treatment epitomizes the era.
Our second Gilded Age isn’t as enchanting as Condé Nast and celebrity spectacle make it seem – but a red carpet parade while event workers struggle for dignified treatment epitomizes the era.
Wealth is more concentrated now than it was in John D. Rockefeller’s day.
Many critics of the New Gilded Age might be surprised to find that they have much in common with the protectionist Republican Party of yesteryear.