Most Clicked This Week
- "While the Israeli public is feeling despondent over the situation in the north and the terrible news from the drone battlefield, some are talking about a huge achievement and the possibility of years of quiet"
- Brian Williams for President
- In case you missed the #IranDeal memo, we've been had
- "Israel wants the world to know that (1) a war with Hezbollah in Lebanon will be, unavoidably, awful; and (2) the massive collateral damage won't be Israel's fault"
- "While America as a whole will suffer from the radicalization of the Democratic Party, perhaps no group will suffer more from the far Left’s takeover of the party than the American Jewish community"
- "Despite the misrepresentations of some anti-Israel Democrats, policies protecting Jerusalem and Israeli-controlled territories in no way prejudice efforts to negotiate a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians"
- Holocaust revenge fantasies like "Inglorious Bastards" and "Hunters" are "bad-faith gestures, assuring an audience that we can ditch our collective trauma by lying to ourselves"
- Trying Israel without Hamas risks violating the International Criminal Courts rules
Tag Archives: Piketty
More on that If-We-Just-Gave-Them-Jobs-They’d-Stop-Killing-Us theory
CAMERA BLOG Au Contraire, Prof. Piketty: Income Inequality Does Not Cause Middle East Terrorism by Sean Durns December 9, 2015 Economic disparities are a main source of terrorism and “Western nations have themselves largely to blame for that inequality.” So … Continue reading
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Tagged Capital in the 21st Century, Piketty, Terrorism, Thomas Piketty
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Financial Times finds fault with Piketty data
FINANCIAL TIMES by Chris Giles, London May 23, 2014 Some issues concern sourcing and definitional problems. Some numbers appear simply to be constructed out of thin air. Thomas Piketty’s book, ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’, has been the publishing sensation of … Continue reading
The Piketty Fallacy
REAL CLEAR POLITICS By Richard Epstein May 6, 2014 Right now, our economic prospects look grim. To classical liberals like myself, future growth is unsustainable in an age dominated by progressive politics. There are two reasons for this: an extensive … Continue reading