The advocates of wealth taxation have overlooked both the impracticality and the immorality of their proposals
Given the significance of cognitive ability and the ease with which it can be tested, it seems odd that we fail to make the most of this information
Viewed over the last hundred years, levels of inequality are back at levels last seen in the decades before the Great Depression
We need to ask some very hard questions about what does – and doesn’t – make a difference in our schools
Among higher income groups marriage has been reinvented as a vehicle for high investment parenting
The conventional left want as much redistribution as they can get away with – but this makes them more not less dependent on the wealthy.
Also: dreadful policemen. Idle George Galloway. Equal Britain. Glorious Dubrovnik…and my passion for Katie Price
Matthew Yglesias does not like school summer holidays. In fact, writing for Slate, he comes across like a warm-weather Ebenezer Scrooge: “There’s no other public service that we would allow to just vanish for months at a time. To have no Army in February, no buses or subways in March, airports closed down for all […]
The politics of corporate America can be politely described as bracing. Certainly, there’s a clear aversion to activist government – not to the extent of turning down subsidies and bail-outs, needless to say – but they’re definitely not so keen on the whole tax and regulation bit. But, according to Chrystia Freeland in Democracy, it […]
We are rich! Well, some of us are. The Guardian reports that millionaires are rather more common than one might think: “One British household in every 10 now has total assets exceeding £1m, according to a new book based on work at the London School of Economics published on Wednesday. “Wealth in the UK crunched […]
In the run-up to the financial crisis of 2008, the rich got a whole lot richer. But they must have taken a hit in the years since, right? Not in America, they haven’t. Writing for Business Insider, Henry Blodget tells it like it is: “In case you were hoping that America's three-decade-long trend toward extreme […]
Last month, a woman by the name of Susan Patton wrote a letter to the Daily Princetonian advising female undergraduates to use their time at university to find a suitable husband: “Simply put, there is a very limited population of men who are as smart or smarter than we are… you will never again be […]
My party seeks to build an economy which works for the many, not for the few.