The American Plan and the 2026 Elections (opens in new tab)

Woody Guthrie proudly sang “This land is your land, this land is my land / FromCalifornia to the New York island,” but, in fact, the conversion of vast publicresources and wealth to private property is one of the defining dynamics ofAmerican history. The political economist Thorstein Veblen called this process“The American Plan:” the conversion of [...]