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Historian Kim Phillips-Fein’s book Country of Lords looks back at the many men who have tried to fight against egalitarianism, from John Adams to Peter Thiel

The historian Kim Phillips-Fein’s new book is published amid celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the declaration of independence and its truth “self-evident, that all men are created equal”. Country of Lords, however, is a history of Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America.

Concise and hard-hitting, the book arrives at a time of glaring social and economic inequality , Phillips-Fein seeing Elon Musk “ emerging as a trillionaire very much on people’s minds, with a deep level of discomfort, both fear and anger about what this portends”.

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Before Robert Eggers fully stepped into his own as a filmmaker and teller of folktales with Nosferatu and The Northman , he terrified audiences with his debut, 2015’s The Witch , a horror film set in 17th century Puritan New England. The Witch follows a family in exile from their settlement, forced to fend for themselves deep in the woods while they are under attack by a mysterious witch who represents a holy kind of evil. Like Martin Scorsese 's take on Cape Fear , the family’s built-in traumas and repression are a time bomb set to destroy it, with the external evil only lighting the fuse. At the center of the witch’s machinations is Thomasin ( Anya Taylor-Joy ), the teenage daughter on the cusp of becoming a woman in a deeply repressed environment.