Although this is ultimately a personal reflection about my time working with Terry Pratchett, I’d like to offer especial thanks to , whose Substack ‘The Saxon Cross’ helped me perhaps more than anything in re-evaluating Tolkien’s legendarium.
This, rather than the excesses of the current or previous terrible government, is the heart of the problem with citizen democracy in the United States.
Dear Frank,
Many thanks for your notes and pushback here! You ask:
"Why the restriction to the US? Was there ever a society in which the wealthy didn’t have the lion’s share of influence?"
This is a fair question to ask, and I can give multiple reasons for focussing on the US in this piece.
