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January 17, 2020|French pension strikes, inequality

Inequality and the French Pension Strikers

by Theodore Dalrymple|

Strikers march through smoke from flares during a demonstration Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020 in Marseille, France. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)
People may be blind to their country’s long-term interests but they are seldom blind to their own short-term interests.

January 14, 2020|Carl Benedikt Frey, Growth, inequality, innovation, Technology

Is There a Technology Trap?

by Michael C. Munger|

Waiter robot serves customers on July 25, 2019 in Rapallo, Italy. The "Gran Caffè Rapallo" restaurant in Liguria is the first restaurant in Italy to use robot waiters (Image: Stefano Mazzola/Shutterstock.com).
The categorical claim, made now by many alarmists, that “this time is different; jobs are gone forever” is no more plausible now than in the past.

October 3, 2019|inequality, Poverty

Why Inequality Should Not Be an Object of Social Policy

by John O. McGinnis|

Protest at New York City Hall on April 4, 2019 (Image: rblfmr/shutterstock.com).
The single greatest danger today to the American experiment is that equality seems to be eclipsing liberty as our central goal.

September 30, 2019|Friedrich Hayek, inequality, neoliberalism, postliberalism, Wendy Brown

Life in the Neoliberal Ruins?

by James R. Rogers|

F.A. Hayek in Gothenberg, Sweden in 1981. Image: Roger Tillberg/Alamy Stock Photo.
Brown is exactly right on the reality of the social. Her cure, however, is to introduce more of the disease rather than the remedy.

May 23, 2019|inequality, Oxfam, Poverty, World Bank

Global Poverty and the Lure of Resentment

by James R. Rogers|

Oxfam office in Berlin, Germany (360b / Shutterstock.com).
Oxfam is reluctant to consider a troubling question: What if global poverty declined because economic inequality increased?

May 22, 2019|Growth, inequality, Interventionism, Paul Collier, Poverty

Paul Collier and the False Promise of “Centrism”

by Nikolai G. Wenzel|

The New York Stock Exchange (Matej Kastelic/Shutterstock.com).
We need to recognize that the first step—rather than further government "medicine"—is to stop poisoning the patient, and return to capitalism.

April 23, 2019|Christianity, Emmanuel Macron, envy, France, gilets jaunes, inequality, laicite, Notre Dame

France, a Nation Mired in an Obsession with Inequality

by John O. McGinnis|

Firefighters inspect the structure of Notre Dame on April 16, 2019 (Frederic Legrand - COMEO / Shutterstock.com).
When many of the richest people in France stepped up to donate for the cathedral's rebuilding the reaction was not gratitude but anger.

February 14, 2019|Adam Smith, covetousness, Equality, inequality, John Locke, status offenses

Covetousness and Inequality

by James R. Rogers|

Image: Frankie's/Shutterstock.com
Once we indulge the taste to take away simply because others have, there is no end but desolation.

February 12, 2019|Democracy, inequality, wealth tax

The Very Rich Do Not Threaten Democracy

by John O. McGinnis|

Image: Create Jobs 51/Shutterstock.com
The advocates for soaking the very rich or even abolishing billionaires offer no realistic mechanism by which the very rich threaten democracy.

October 31, 2018|development, Growth, inequality, Stolper-Samuelson

Inequality Is Declining in Developing Nations and Will Decline in the West, Too

by James R. Rogers|

View of business district in Bangkok, Thailand (Image: Iam_Anupong/Shutterstock.com).
The Western experience with increasing economic inequality cannot be generalized worldwide.
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Book Reviews

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

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The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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Liberty Classics

Rereading Politica in the Post-Liberal Moment

by Glenn A. Moots

Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.

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James Fenimore Cooper and the American Experiment

by Melissa Matthes

In The American Democrat, James Fenimore Cooper defended democracy against both mob rule and majority tyranny.

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Podcasts

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

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Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

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Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

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America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

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