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The New Left

“In 1971–72, my mind was in a fruitful turmoil regarding my left-wing tendencies. I had begun to notice the appearance of two lefts—one that included my whole family and what it represented, and the other a “new” left, based on

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Misreading the Mandate

It is worthy to note how the president’s popularity has dissipated so rapidly in his first year.  I believe it is for three reasons. Obama’s success was more related to luck than his party wants to admit.  The timing of

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Politically Correct Moralizing

“I became a conservative by being around liberals and I became a libertarian by being around conservatives.  You realized that there’s something distinctly in common between the two groups, the left and the right; the worst part of each of

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The Great Compression and Its Aftermath

Paul Krugman referred to the period between 1930 and 1980 as the Great Compression, referring to a flattening of the incomes from the very rich and the very poor of the Gilded Age and the growing income inequality from the

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