The Crown Is a Privilege and a Responsibility

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I have no interest in the British royalty, and yet I have enjoyed it immensely for a whole bunch of reasons. It's beautifully done and the dialogue is superb and the acting is tremendous. The rhetoric of the elites today is really something. How are these institutions going to be rebuilt? How are we going to regain something like that? Better people marrying somebody and hoping they change will not happen.

Author Martin Gurri, Visiting Fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, talks about his book The Revolt of the Public with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Gurri argues that a digital tsunami--the increase in information that the web provides--has destabilized authority and many institutions. He talks about the amorphous nature of recent populist protest movements around the world and where we might be headed politically and culturally.