It’s safe to say I disagree with him on the merits, but Timothy Noah frames the question provocatively in the correspondence section of the latest Claremont Review of Books, responding to William Voegeli’s unfavorable reviwe of his book The Great… Continue Reading
…But first, Milton Friedman agreeing with a socialist: “One of the reasons why I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over, and the two together form a coalition against the… Continue Reading
“Look, if you taxed every person in successful small business making over $250,000 at a hundred percent, it’d only run the government for 98 days. If everybody who paid income taxes last year, including successful small businesses, doubled their income… Continue Reading
Submitted for comment, the below is a portion of a long piece I’ve been working on for some time on the role of government in the modern U.S. economy, including its role in addressing the limited problems with inequality of… Continue Reading
I recently finished Gabriel Kolko’s Triumph of Conservatism and Charles Kesler’s I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism. I’ll have more to say about those books later, but I wanted to comment on something that became… Continue Reading
Last weekend, my family ate breakfast at the Mother’s Market & Kitchen near our house. My wife’s diet has become increasingly organic – which is to say that my diet has become increasingly organic (for the better! thank you, dear!) –… Continue Reading
[Originally posted at the main page.] Three months after the infamous Kelo v. New London opinion was issued in June 2005, Professor Thomas W. Merrill testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee about his surprise at the public’s “stunning” and “overwhelming… Continue Reading
Reacting to my previous post analyzing the President’s statements Friday last, Burt Likko could not “reasonably understand Obama to be arguing for a proposition to the effect of ‘Everything belongs to society ab initio, so the government should be able… Continue Reading
The President has been insisting for some time now that those who earn more than $250,000 a year are not paying their “fair share.” One must assume that the President is aware that these “wealthy” Americans are in fact paying… Continue Reading
[Originally posted on the main page] Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on inequality. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click… Continue Reading