This exceedingly interesting study of old and new money in 19th-century New York City can be read as a companion piece to the fiction of Henry James and, most particularly, Edith Wharton. Eric ...

On Heirs & Graces: A History of the Modern British Aristocracy, by Eleanor Doughty. The House of Lords would then comprise about 740 life peers, created by recent prime ministers. Life peerages were ...

One of my best friends who I am committed to meet fortnightly for our mutual discussions and conversations on national and international matters asked me an interesting question during our last ...

I've been in London this past week. Purely by coincidence, my trip ended up being concurrent with the public funeral of Queen Elizabeth II earlier this week. I'm no aristocrat and you probably aren't ...

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AMERICANS have always assumed that wealth comes and goes. A poor person can work hard, become rich and pass his money on to his children and grandchildren. But then, if those descendants do not manage ...

Central to the generations-long narrative of American greatness is the United States' willingness to allow raw talent to thrive unimpeded by artificial constraints. This idea that the best of us have ...

In 2008, the French critic Lucien Jaume published an interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that won a prize from the Académie Française. An English version by the eminent translator Arthur ...

WASHINGTON DC, Feb 6 2025 (IPS) - For centuries, innumerable countries were ruled by an entrenched, typically inherited, political class: the “aristocracy.” The term comes from the Ancient Greek words ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In pre-revolutionary France aristocrats were exempt from direct taxation. On present trends the world’s elite ...