Checks and balances are supposed to ward off a spoils system. Can the guardrails hold?
For centuries, innumerable countries were ruled by an entrenched, typically inherited, political class: the "aristocracy." The term comes from the Ancient Greek words "aristos", meaning best, and ...
My friend didn't know that I had just finished the complete works of Oscar Wilde and I read a lot on what aristocracy meant. In The Importance of Being Earnest, the famous drama of Oscar Wilde ...
WASHINGTON DC, Feb 6 2025 (IPS) - For centuries, innumerable countries were ruled by an entrenched, typically inherited, political class: the “aristocracy.” The term comes from the Ancient Greek words ...