The Villainization of Business: Corporate Tyrants and Government Sycophants

The Villainization of Business: Corporate Tyrants and Government Sycophants

It seems everyone hates corporations these days, but that is nothing new. For more than a century, Americans have swung between denouncing large firms as predatory Leviathans and attempting to conscript them for nonbusiness ends. That process may now be entering a new phase — one with broader implications for whether America remains a free country. In the Progressive Era, corporations were portrayed as extractive engines of class power, tolerate…