Edward Luce, US national editor for the Financial Times, had a local lunch and talk (sub. required) with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. I liked this from the piece:

“Trump’s return does not fit easily into Goodwin’s America. I suggest that an era that does echo today is when the Carnegies, Rockefellers and Vanderbilts – the Elon Musks, Mark Zuckerbergs and Jeff Bezoses of their age – were redefining what it meant to be wealthy. Goodwin likes that comparison. ‘The robber barons probably looked in the mirror and thought they were God too.’”