A Privileged Few: The Six Family Dynasties Funding Project 2025 — and the Government They’re Buying

Send us Fan Mail In 2009, Peter Thiel published an essay in which he wrote: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” He was not alone in thinking it. He was just one of the few willing to say it publicly. This episode is about what happens when the people who share that view have enough money to stop democracy from working against them. When a small number of people accumulate wealth on the scale we are now seeing in America — fortunes measured not in millions but in t...