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A Postliberal Future?

WSJ Opinion: Free Expression

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The Politics of the Today

Aristotle suggests that every society is driven by this seemingly unavoidable conflict between the many poor and the few wealthy. Every political order is more or less destined to internal destruction a kind of self-destruction because of this division, he says. Aristotle commends as probably the most plausible way to create a good regime which is to take the two most common elements of any political order the wealthy few and the man horror many and to kind of blend their qualities according to his ideas.

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