Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American democracy, it’s blindingly evident, is in crisis. Terms that once characterized faraway repressive regimes—oligarchy, ...

The Power Elite received significant criticism, not surprisingly from members of the various “power elite” institutions. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. said, "I look forward to the time when Mr. Mills ...

Seventy years ago, C. Wright Mills published The Power Elite, a scathing indictment of corporate executives, state officials, and their academic apologists. His analysis has lost none of its bite as ...

Jeffrey Epstein—the hedge fund billionaire/convicted serial pedophile and sex trafficker—may be dead, but the machinery that empowered and protected him is still very much alive. You see, the Epstein ...

The late, visionary sociologist C. Wright Mills stated in 1956 that acts of elite deviance that cause social harm, regardless of their criminality in a legal sense, are part of the “higher immorality ...

The Power Elite was the last of his three books addressing what he called “the main drift” of American public life. The first, The New Men of Power (1948), called out organized labor’s failure to ...