Voices
CHRYSTIA
FREELAND
HUFFINGTON
02.02.14
FRANCO ORIGLIA/GETTY IMAGES
Thanks to Pope Francis,
Revolt Against the Global
Super-Rich Is Underway
2013 WAS THE YEAR the rise of
the plutocrats made it to the top
of the international agenda. Witness the remarkable consensus
at the year’s end of the world’s
centers of faith, power and mon-
ey: Pope Francis published an
apostolic exhortation criticizing
the “economy of exclusion,” U.S.
President Barack Obama named
income inequality as the most
important issue of our time, and
New York, the global capital of
the plutocracy, elected a mayor
who won by attacking the “tale of
Pope Francis
attends
his weekly
audience in
St. Peter’s
Square on
Jan. 22,
2014, in
Vatican City.