There’s a distinct menace to the child on the cover of Rage Against The Machine’s sophomore album, Evil Empire. His narrowed eyes and arrogant little smirk make him look like an embodiment of the America that RATM are rallying against: haughty, white, and playing at being a superhero while harboring own dark intentions. The painting is such a loaded image that one might assume the kid in the cape was never a real person, just an imagined freckle-faced child out of somebody’s imagination. But that’s not the case – the model for Evil Empire’s cover is actually author and entrepreneur Ari Meisel. Ari runs Less Doing, which helps businessmen and entrepreneurs scale down their operations and make themselves expendable so that they don’t have to run every little aspect of their op...
