The Unaccountable Class

Why do the same people keep failing upward-while everyone else pays the price?

The Unaccountable Class exposes a dangerous truth at the heart of modern society: the most powerful people are not held to the same rules as everyone else-and that insulation doesn't just corrupt politics, markets, or institutions. It rewires the human mind.

Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, economics, political science, and history, this book shows how power without consequence erodes empathy, inflates confidence, and normalizes harm. From financial crises and endless wars to public health overreach, corporate crime, and media narrative control, the pattern is the same: risk is privatized, loss is socialized, and accountability quietly disappears.

This is not a partisan book. The unaccountable class exists on the left and the right, in governments and corporations, democracies and autocracies. The real divide is not ideology-it is accountable versus untouchable.

Clear-eyed, research-backed, and unsparing, The Unaccountable Class argues that the greatest threat to free societies is not evil leaders, but leaders who cannot be punished. And it makes the case for a radical but practical solution: designing systems that assume human failure and make unaccountable power impossible to sustain.