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Is Inequality Necessary?
My friend Charles Lane, former editor of the New Republic and now a Washington Post editorialist, didn't like President Obama's speech about income inequality ("Obama's Simplistic View of Income Inequality"). What Obama fails to grasp, Lane writes, is that there's a trade-off between economic growth and economic redistribution. READ MORE >>
A Former Treasury Adviser On How To Really Fix Wall Street
The Browbeater
Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain By Dwight Macdonald Edited by John Summers (New York Review Books, 289pp., $16.95) READ MORE >>
Harold Bloom's Anxiety of (Mormon) Influence
The Bush-Perry Double Standard, Cont'd
Washington’s Most Powerful, Least Famous People
The Last Word
Thomson on Films: Cliff Robertson and the Sordid Ways of Old Hollywood
Judging from the fervor of their celebrations, the Libyan people are acutely aware that they will benefit from the fall of Muammar Qaddafi. But Libya is hardly the only country that has reason to rejoice. READ MORE >>
