The Divine Right of Kings

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. – Ursula K. Le Guin

I’ve been thinking about those sentences a lot over the last couple of months.

Last year I read Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century and right now I’m working on Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything. Piketty makes it clear that the current system will expand income and wealth inequities unless we take action; Klein is arguing that we need to rein in corpo...