The Thirty Tyrants – Tablet Magazine
The Athenian government disloyal to Athens laws and contemptuous of its traditions was known as the Thirty Tyrants, and understanding its role and function helps explain what is happening in America today.
For my last column I spoke with The New York Times Thomas Friedman about an article he wrote more than a decade ago, during the first year of Barack Obama s presidency. His important piece documents the exact moment when the American elite decided that democracy wasn t working for them. Blaming the Republican Party for preventing them from running roughshod over the American public, they migrated to the Democratic Party in the hopes of strengthening the relationships that were making them rich.