Muslim Progressives Paul Rowan Brian (“Muslims in American Politics,” November) has deftly laid bare the source of Muslims’ predicament in the United States: their profound anxiety over being accepted as “real” Americans, and the tendency of this anxiety to overcome their confidence in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism by quinn slobodian harvard, 400 pages, $35 On April 15, 1994, in Marrakesh, Morocco, representatives of 124 countries signed an agreement effecting the greatest legal and institutional reform of the world economy in history. The . . . . Continue Reading »
Geoffrey Hill Like Garrick Davis (“Geoffrey Hill, Prodigal,” August/September), I too had the fortune of having Geoffrey Hill as an instructor. In 2004, I was a student in the Boston University writing seminars, and a few of us from the writing program took Hill’s Gerard Manley Hopkins seminar . . . . Continue Reading »
From Tolerance to Equality: How Elites Brought America to Same-Sex Marriage by darel e. paul baylor, 256 pages, $39.95 In 2013, the Supreme Court reversed a determination by the Internal Revenue Service that $363,053 in inheritance taxes were owed on an estate of $4.1 million. One side of the . . . . Continue Reading »
On a clear June day in 2017, two million people lined the route of the New York Pride Parade to cheer as floats sponsored by Deutsche Telekom, Nissan, Facebook, and Toronto-Dominion Bank went by. Marchers wearing #Resistance T-shirts led the way, followed by ranks of New York’s Finest marching . . . . Continue Reading »
My life as an economist started in October 1990, when I arrived at college with the firm conviction that I would make economics my profession. (In old Europe you select your major the summer before starting college. Yes, I know, it does not make much sense, but nothing makes that much sense in . . . . Continue Reading »
Part Two of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century concerns history of capital in relation to income (the capital/income ratio) over the course of the twentieth century. Continue Reading »
I’ve started reading this year’s big book, Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Fascinating stuff, at least to this non-economist. He engages in Big Think, which of course appeals to me. Anyone who writes an essay like “Empire of Desire” is bound to . . . . Continue Reading »
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