Party of One Studio for Vox

A blueprint exists for a more inclusive, successful nation that invests in the well-being of its citizens. We only have to look to the past.

Part of The Great Rebuild Issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world.

The most intimidating figure in the British government during World War II received no salary and operated under the unassuming title of adviser to His Majesty’s Treasury. By the 1940s, John Maynard Keynes didn’t need new sources of money or prestige. The most famous economist in the world for more than two decades, he was friendly with US Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, King Alfonso XIII of Spain, celebrity journalist Walter Lippmann, poet T.S. Eliot, novelist Virginia Woolf, and too many other titans of the 20th century to