Money quote: "[Supreme Court Justice Louis] Brandeis’s basic contention, built up over a lifetime of lawyering from the Gilded Age onward, was that big busines

Money quote: "[Supreme Court Justice Louis] Brandeis’s basic contention, built up over a lifetime of lawyering from the Gilded Age onward, was that big business and democracy were rivals. “We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few,” he said, “but we can’t have both.” Economics, identity, and politics could not be divorced, because financial power—bankers and monopolists—threatened local communities and self-government."