The American Ruling Class

The American Ruling Class is a “dramatic-documentary-musical” that re-invents all three genres. And the subject is America’s most taboo topic: class, power and privilege in our nominally democratic republic. Two Yale students seek opportunities after graduation. Lewis Lapham, the renowned essayist, author and longtime Harper’s Magazine editor, conducts them through the corridors of power, including Pentagon press briefings, the World Economic Forum, philanthropic foundations, Washington law firms, banks, the Council on Foreign Relations and New York society dinners.