The use of -isms distract us from the basic question: what political and private institutions are better at matching people to capital.
Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.
We ought to read The Dispossessed to appreciate complexity—and the imperfection of our theories in the face of life’s messy reality.
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Despite the powerful sense of his absence from our temporal world, the mortal Justice Scalia is very present in these pages.
Our system has become utterly cavalier in its use of the criminal sanction.
Caldwell’s Age of Entitlement argues that the civil rights state is the anvil upon which our nation wages its incessant political contests.
Despite Gornick’s good intentions, the painful end of the Communist romance dominates her book from start to finish.
Coronavirus suggests one important truth: dependence on a single country is to industry what dependence on monoculture is to agriculture.
The reaction to the end of Warren’s campaign captures the blindness of the academic lounge and the establishment press to which it is intimately connected.
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Compared to Europe, Canada and Australia the honest answer is “yes—but with good reason.”
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Our system has become utterly cavalier in its use of the criminal sanction.
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The best way to explain why we incarcerate so much is to explore what would happen if we didn’t.
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We do imprison too many, and Latzer unduly minimizes the breathtaking severity of America’s criminal justice system.
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Debates should continue about root causes, but attacking incarceration is not the right way forward.
