By William Brooks In an age when so many politicians cast themselves as benevolent champions of equity and social justice, a troubling pattern has emerged. The very systems designed to redistribute wealth and uplift the disadvantaged have often become vehicles for systemic abuse and the enrichment of entrenched elites. From the 19th century onward, the […]
Tag: Tyranny
Tyranny, in the Greco-Roman world, is an autocratic form of rule in which one individual exercised power without any legal restraint. In antiquity the word tyrant was not necessarily pejorative and signified the holder of absolute political power. In its modern usage the word tyranny is usually pejorative and connotes the illegitimate possession or use of such power.
