For almost fifty years I have been an enthusiastic fan and promoter of the works of the great Walter Karp. Karp was a masterful prose writer and political analyst, a true Jeffersonian republican and foe of the plutocratic oligarchy which has dominated our nation-state since its inception. Read his powerful essay, Republican Virtues, originally published in Harper’s, July 1979. The essay also appears in Buried Alive: Essays on Our Endangered Republic (a posthumously gathered collection of Walter Karp’s essays edited by Lewis Lapham and Ellen Rosenbush) under the title “The Two Americas.” In such uncompromising works as Indispensable Enemies: The Politics of Misrule, The … Continue reading Politics 101: Walter Karp and Power Elite Analysis