The philosopher and the tycoon, how Eric Hoffer Predicted the last election
In an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, Desautels Finance Professor examines the 1970 essay Whose Country Is America? by Eric Hoffer. Professor Brenner looks at how the essay seems to have predicted the tenor of the last US presidential election, as well as the histrionics that have rocked America since.
Hoffer made the case that there is an 鈥渙rdeal of affluence鈥� that is guiding society towards anarchy, and he laid the blame squarely at the feet of intellectuals and those who try to cure society鈥檚 ills with injections of money. In contrast, he said, common folk know that just throwing money at poverty won鈥檛 solve anything.
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