{"id":24034,"date":"2026-07-21T10:37:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/social-darwinists-to-tech-bros-tracing-the-long-fight-against-equality-in-us\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:37:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:37:48","slug":"social-darwinists-to-tech-bros-tracing-the-long-fight-against-equality-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/social-darwinists-to-tech-bros-tracing-the-long-fight-against-equality-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Darwinists to tech bros: tracing the long fight against equality in US"},"content":{"rendered":"

Historian Kim Phillips-Fein\u2019s book Country of Lords looks back at the many men who have tried to fight against egalitarianism, from John Adams to Peter Thiel<\/p>\n

The historian Kim Phillips-Fein\u2019s new book is published amid celebrations of the 250th anniversary<\/a> of the declaration of independence and its truth \u201cself-evident, that all men are created equal\u201d. Country of Lords, however, is a history of Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against<\/em> Equality in America.<\/p>\n

Concise and hard-hitting, the book arrives at a time of glaring social and economic<\/a> inequality<\/a>, Phillips-Fein seeing Elon Musk<\/a> \u201cemerging as a trillionaire<\/a> very much on people\u2019s minds, with a deep level of discomfort, both fear and anger about what this portends\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\nHistorian Kim Phillips-Fein\u2019s book Country of Lords looks back at the many men who have tried to fight against egalitarianism, from John Adams to Peter Thiel
\nThe historian Kim Phillips-Fein\u2019s new book is published amid celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the declaration of independence and its truth \u201cself-evident, that all men are created equal\u201d. Country of Lords, however, is a history of Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America.
\nConcise and hard-hitting, the book arrives at a time of glaring social and economic inequality, Phillips-Fein seeing Elon Musk \u201cemerging as a trillionaire very much on people\u2019s minds, with a deep level of discomfort, both fear and anger about what this portends\u201d. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Historian Kim Phillips-Fein\u2019s book Country of Lords looks back at the many men who have tried to fight against egalitarianism, from John Adams to Peter Thiel The historian Kim Phillips-Fein\u2019s new book is published amid celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the declaration of independence and its truth \u201cself-evident, that all men are created equal\u201d. …<\/p>\n

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