Why Democracy Needs the Rich: John O. McGinnis on Wealth, Power and Pluralism

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At a time when politicians across the West are calling for higher taxes on the wealthy, legal scholar and author John O. McGinnis offers a strikingly different view: what if democracy needs the rich? He joins Merryn Somerset Webb to discuss power, inequality, free speech and what he says is the hidden role wealth plays in keeping democratic societies healthy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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