with democracy in “freefall” and political strife that has “never been worse.” Wait until she hears about the Civil War. Like Aristotle in his “Rhetoric,” Ms. Reames reverse-engineers ...

The philosopher Aristotle wrote in his book “Politics” that “democracy is safer and more free from civil strife than oligarchy; for in oligarchies two kinds of strife spring up, faction ...

It’s hardly groundbreaking to point out that economic inequality undermines democracy—Plato and Aristotle sounded the alarm more than 2,000 years ago, and the Founding Fathers followed suit.