Jeffrey Winters
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first heard May 2026
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And the student wanted to make it very clear that no, no, no, no, we don't have oligarchs in the U.S.,
At that time in 2007, where we had sort of made this definitional detour, where really it was something about one's money having to do with corruption in Russia.
That's right.
That has completely changed now.
And so in the vocabulary today, we've actually come back to the...
long-standing definition of what oligarchs is.
And I define oligarchy as not a separate political system from democracy.
Oligarchy is the politics of wealth defense.
Give us some examples of who are the Western oligarchs, would you say?
So the first thing I'll say is that there are those who are very prominent and household names, and they are only the tip of the iceberg of who the oligarchs are.
And so everybody knows names like Bezos, Soros.
Elon Musk.
Elon Musk, Zuckerberg, Thiel.
There's a long list of names of people that really are household names.
And one of the important things to understand right off the bat is that set of names is constantly changing.
15 years ago, most of those names were not uttered.
And 15 years from now, it's going to be a different set of names.
So we have to think of oligarchs as being both a set of identifiable actors who are quite visible, but also a very large number of people actually down below them who are very influential and are using their wealth power to make sure that oligarchs get outcomes which are very favorable to them.
Well, if we back up to the birth, for example, of our modern democratic era, it happens in the 1780s in the United States.
And what a lot of people don't realize is that that moment of
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