American 'Participatory Inequality'

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 26

Jeffrey Winters, professor of political science at Northwestern University and the director of the Equality Development and Globalization Studies Program at Northwestern’s Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and the author of The Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies (Scribner, 2026), talks about the history of oligarchy, how to fight it, and why it maintains power in a democracy.

Photo: Cover art for The Blind Spot. (Credit: Simon & Schuster)

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