Vilfredo Pareto once observed that history was a “graveyard of aristocracies” as ruling elites gradually become decadent, depraved, and dysfunctional. The contemporary United States is a disturbingly ...

Living in an intensely divisive and contentious time like this current sociopolitical moment makes certain perspectives on the world more needed now than ever. As a college professor for 30 years, I ...

David L. Swartz, retired from teaching, is now visiting researcher at Boston University. He is author of Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals: The Political Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu (2013), ...