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Social Engineering by Any Other Name …

Posted in Welfare State on Jan 14th, 2010

The following is an unpublished review I wrote of Charles Murray’s In Our Hands back in 2006. I’ve been fielding student questions on this topic, so thought it might make sense to put this out there for them to refer to. Social Engineering by Any Other Name … August (2006) marked the ten year anniversary […]

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Leaving the Poor Blowin’ in the Wind

Posted in Politics, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Mar 7th, 2008

The political class in Chicago has now made the city the first and only in America where the cumulative sales tax rate exceeds 10%. That seems an awfully strange thing to do in a city where over 21% of the measured population lives under the poverty line (according to the American Community Survey). One of […]

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