Last week saw the so-called Million Student March, where students around the country — probably not a million of them — organized to demand free college, the cancellation of all student debt, and a $15 minimum wage for all campus workers.
While there is heated debate today over the growth of government control of medicine, what’s often missing, particularly from those on the Right, is moral opposition to the policies on the table.
What is the difference between economic inequality and poverty? What is political inequality? Is “equality of opportunity” more desirable than “equality of outcome”? Is inequality a threat to the American dream? These are only some of the issues covered in The Heartland Institute’s interview with ARI fellow Don Watkins.
The Debt Dialogues is a weekly podcast that aims to educate young people about the welfare state and how it will affect their future. In this episode, I interview McGill University economist William Watson on his book The Inequality Trap. Topics covered include: How the focus on income inequality distracts us from dealing with genuine economic challenges, the deserving and undeserving rich and putting CEO pay in context.
In the latest episode of The Yaron Brook Show, Yaron discusses various aspects of the immigration debate with Onkar Ghate, senior fellow and chief content officer of ARI.
The Debt Dialogues is a weekly podcast that aims to educate young people about the welfare state and how it will affect their future. In this episode, I interview Manhattan Institute fellow Jared Meyer on the ride-sharing company Uber. Topics covered include: How Uber is creating opportunity for drivers and passengers, whether there is any merit to the criticisms of Uber and what Uber can teach us about how to fight for limited government.
More than fifty years after Ayn Rand described big business as “America’s persecuted minority,” businesspeople are still being subjected to widespread moral denunciation and regulatory oppression. But such continuing injustices do not warrant giving in to discouragement, observes Ayn Rand Institute senior fellow Onkar Ghate.
The consensus among pundits about the Democratic presidential debate is that Hillary Clinton “won” in the sense that she came across as trustworthy, likable, and “presidential.” I’ll leave to readers to ponder the use of words like these to describe someone who has been dissembling about her emails for years now and who angrily dismissed a Congressional investigation into the cause of the Benghazi attacks with “What difference, at this point, does it make?”
Senator Bernie Sanders loves to cite Scandinavian countries like Sweden as some sort of ideal. Sweden allegedly proves that his “social democratic” vision for America is both possible and desirable. Truth is that Sweden’s economic history proves the complete opposite.
You don’t have to believe in class warfare to be troubled by economic inequality — at least not according to Vox.com, which breathlessly quotes Angus Deaton, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in economics. According to Vox.com, Deaton makes a “compelling” case that inequality threatens democracy.
