Jeffrey Winters
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first heard May 2026
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And it has always meant...
Those who are empowered specifically by wealth.
And then elites are actually, it's a much newer term.
A much broader one.
Much broader term also, quite true.
And it refers to people who are also quite powerful, but not connected necessarily to wealth.
And so think of someone like Churchill, right?
Gandhi, Joe Biden, Martin Luther King.
These are people who have tremendous power, but it's not rooted in wealth.
And so oligarchs are all the way back to the Roman Senate.
They were people who actually, in that case, had political office, political positions, but also had tremendous wealth.
As we move forward through history into the modern democratic era, one of the important things that happens is that oligarchs themselves no longer rule directly, or for quite a long time they didn't.
Actually, right now, what we have is a lot of very, very wealthy people who are now running directly.
In my own state of Illinois, the governor, the office of government, Pritzker, ran against another billionaire.
This is becoming increasingly common.
But so think of oligarchs as it has nothing to do with the source of their wealth.
So for a while, people were saying Russian oligarchs.
Oh, absolutely.
In fact, I teach a course at Northwestern University called Oligarchs and Elites.
On the very first day I taught the course in 2007, a student made a statement, Russia has oligarchs and the United States has rich people.
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