Scandinavian Unexceptionalism: Culture, Markets, and the Failure of Third-Way Socialism
This is a short and informative but easy to read answer to both how and why the Scandinavian welfare states seem to work so well.
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The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Economic Growth, and Increase Inequality
What should be done to end the Progressives influence over government and the economy and to promote the public good?
Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century
If capitalism has been so bad for the poor, how can it be that the standard of living for the poor has vastly increased?
Why Marx Hated Individualism
The capitalist system is a system in which promotion is precisely according to merit. Marx didn't like that.
Class Conflict and Revolutionary Socialism
The fundamental concept of the Communist Manifesto was that of “class” and “class conflict.” But Marx didn’t say what a “class” was.
The Rockefellers and Social Security
The Rockefellers and their intellectual and technocratic entourage were, indeed, central to the New Deal.
This Bishop Hates Capitalism so Much, He’s Praising the Anti-Christian Chinese Regime
There is a long history of sympathetic Western intellectuals traveling to foreign socialist lands — deciding they've discovered paradise on earth.
Inequality, Capital, and the Problem of Piketty
Piketty’s portrayal of capitalism has not gone unchallenged, and Anti-Piketty collects a number of the most important criticisms of it.
Class Theory and Cultural Marxism
Modern ideas of political correctness are often real-world applications of Marx’s opposition to people with the "wrong" class consciousness.
