It’s Time the Word “Oligarch” Lost Its Russian Veneer

Back in 2011, the New Yorker published a Charles Barsotti cartoon that I, as a scholar of wealth power in liberal democracies, found brilliant: A rotund executive in a business suit is saying to his C-suite pal: “‘Oligarch’—terrible word, we’ll need a new one.” Barsotti’s caption alluded to the post-Great Recession battle—exemplified by Occupy Wall Street […]