Mark Dolliver: Resenting the Rich

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Sure, people in a democracy have a “natural taste for freedom,” Tocqueville wrote in Democracy in America. “But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible.” Amid all the change America has seen since Tocqueville’s jaunt, that desire for equality has remained a constant. But it’s an increasingly thwarted passion. Amid a crescendo of data about how much richer the rich are compared to everyone else, concern over inequality has escaped the confines of public-policy debate to become a broader cultural phenomenon.

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