Adam Vass Gal: How the State Destroys the Poor
Jeff Deist and Adam Vass Gal discuss why the State is a villain of the downtrodden.
Jeff Deist and Adam Vass Gal discuss why the State is a villain of the downtrodden.
The Fed and Washington politicians tell us how well the economy is doing, but the problems of the last financial crisis remain, and if we look closer, we find stagnant wages, ageing equipment, and lenders looking to scrape the bottom of the barrel.
“So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.” (Bob Dylan, All Along the Watchtower, 1967)
The weak dollar was a subsidy for the oil industry, but as Hazlitt noted, they make “the industries in which we are comparatively inefficient larger, and the industries in which we are comparatively efficient smaller.”
Adam Vass Gall discusses his recent book: Generational Poverty: An Economic Look at the Culture of the Poor.
George Kateb's new book, Lincoln's Political Thought, is an important addition to Lincoln scholarship. Kateb appears to understand that Lincoln was more of a nationalist than a moral crusader, although Kateb's conclusions about the Civil War inspire skepticism.
There’s an interesting story in the news
Many have tried to create a division between “political freedom” and “economic freedom.” But all freedoms ultimately depend