In 1975, Noam Chomsky warned of the dangers posed by the Trilateral Commission, an elite network of Western political and corporate leaders who believed there was “too much democracy.” Half a century later, their influence is not a relic of the past but the architecture of our present. The current UK Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, is a proud member of the Trilateral Commission. So too is Germany’s Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, and the recently disgraced British ambassador to Washington, Peter M