Gilded Age

Still, for all its impracticality, his own sturgeon pepperpot—requiring four pounds of sturgeon heads and a pound of sturgeon fillet or steak—evokes Gilded Age extravagance and makes a certain kind of historic Philadelphia statement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Not until early in the next century did Congress take on the depredations of Gilded Age plutocrats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

That conceit ended up an unsubtle but no less effective metaphor for our new Gilded Age.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

Texas churches also spoke out against inequality during the Gilded Age — a late 19th-century period of rapid industrial growth that produced extreme wealth inequality, Locke said.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026

A battle followed, fought in true Gilded Age fashion with oblique snubs and poisonous courtesy.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson