Rich Cohen is the author of Sweet and Low, Tough Jews, The Avengers, and Machers and Rockers, and the memoir Lake Effect. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, among many other publications, and he is a contributing editor to Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. He lives in New York City.

Blog Entries by Rich Cohen

American Entropy

Posted March 30, 2007 | 05:20 PM (EST)


The great problem of the age is inherited wealth, and the great danger is the sons and grandsons of the super-rich. We have become a nation of dynasties -- political dynasties, newspaper dynasties, sports franchise dynasties, Hollywood dynasties, literary dynasties. What's more, these dynasties were often founded in the boom...

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