Sublime

as the bubble grows, it becomes an increasingly pure bet on a revolution

The Supreme Court overruled their position unanimously, noting that the Clean Air Act’s standards are absolute and not subject to cost-benefit analysis. Although their side lost in the end, the case illustrated that the Kochs’ ideological pipeline was humming.

Gerrymandering was a bipartisan game as old as the Republic. What made it different after Citizens United was that the business of manipulating politics from the ground up was now heavily directed and funded by the unelected rich. To get the job done, they used front groups claiming to be nonpartisan social welfare groups, funded by contributions f

As it turned out, I later followed Bob’s advice and attended the leadership program at Cal Tech.

But in the eyes of critics, the Kochs had not so much enriched as corrupted academia, sponsoring courses that would otherwise fail to meet the standards of legitimate scholarship. John David, an economics professor at West Virginia University Tech who witnessed the school’s transformation, wrote in a scathing newspaper column that it had become cle

Gould did not take a title, but had a seat on the executive committee and had four additional board seats, which he filled with his brokers.

WARREN BUFFETT Founder and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway