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Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the "republican form of government" the Constitution requires. But as Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath show in this retelling of constitutional history, a commitment to prevent oligarchy once stood at the center of a robust tradition in American political and constitutional thought.

The Millennials are all grown up now and have spent two decades being the public punching bag of their Boomer forefathers. Two of these so-called entitled kids sit down and discuss their view on America, past, present, and future. As the country is slipping increasingly towards both Oligarchy and outright Authoritarianism, the first generation to have less economic success and freedoms than their parents discuss the state of the nation, their visions for the future, and the existential crisis's connecting them all.