The Surprising Origins and Politics of Equality
Politics tamfitronics Books & the Arts / August 27, 2024Politics tamfitronics Zig and ZagThe surprising origins and politics of equalityA series of new books unearth the long history of egalitarian politics. They also ask whether equality, instead of another political ideal, should be at the center of our politics? New York Stock Exchange, 1895.(Getty)In the chilling speech he gives at the end of the film Margin CallJeremy Irons says that no one should say they believe in equality, because no one really thinks it exists: The very idea camouflages the endurance of hierarchy in an essentially unchanging form. “It’s certainly no different today than it’s ever been,” he explains to an underling. “There have always been and there always will be the same percentage of winners and losers….Books in reviewBasic Equalityby Paul SagarBuy this...
