Florida Conservative

The modern call to eliminate billionaires reflects an underlying anxiety about the direction of contemporary civilization. Yet the problem is not simply the existence of great wealth. It is the cultural and economic order that produces particular forms of wealth and rewards particular forms of human activity.

The greatest encroachments on the sovereignty of the American citizen no longer originate in the White House, or Congress, or even the alphabet soup of administrative agencies. They originate in Silicon Valley server farms, philanthropic foundations in Manhattan, and transnational NGO archipelagos operating under the polite euphemism of “civil society.”

Meet Hansjörg Wyss, ex-owner of Synthes (a Swiss medical supply company) super billionaire, environmentalist, illegal human medical...