What am I doing?

It's something about oligarchy, but I need your help to figure out what this newsletter is.

I haven’t been writing much for this newsletter for the last few months because I was busy with parental leave among other things. But I also have been held back by uncertainty about what I’m doing with this newsletter.

My research has been gravitating towards questions about the growing political and economic power of oligarchs from Wall Street and Big Tech. I’ve started writing a book proposal with the working title: “Axis of Oligarchy: How Wall Street and Big Tech Broke America.” I’ll write more about this soon.

Similarly, I’m pondering a new title for this newsletter. Again, I want to put oligarchy at the center. But I also want to keep ordinary people in the frame. I think this will help me keep an eye on how civil society, including universities, can build alternatives alongside and in place of the oligarchies that dominate our present.

So what title should I give the newsletter? Please reply to this email if you have ideas!

Or take a second to vote in this poll of my current brainstorm:

Or, if you don’t like this focus or any of these titles, email me or write a substack comment to tell me why.

In any case, thanks for reading and helping me figure out what exactly I’m doing.