Last month, we asked you to show us your skills and create a graphic featuring one of your favorite quotes from Equal Is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality by Don Watkins and Yaron Brook. We received some great submissions and are pleased to announce our favorites.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the publication of Ayn Rand’s first novel, We the Living. In her foreword to the novel, Rand explains that although the book is set in 1920s Soviet Russia, We the Living is not a historical novel: it “is a story about Dictatorship, any dictatorship, anywhere, at any time” and its goal is to show what “the rule of brute force does to men and how it destroys the best.”
ARI fellow Don Watkins recently appeared on C-SPAN2 Book TV’s series After Words, in which Diana Furchtgott-Roth, senior fellow at Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, interviews him about his book Equal Is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality.
Today, May 11, 2016, The Undercurrent published an interview with ARI fellow Don Watkins on his new book Equal Is Unfair: Americas Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality.
In this episode of The Yaron Brook Show, originally aired on April 15, 2016, guest host Don Watkins discusses the truth about the American tax burden, the underlying un-American collectivism of the “fair share” rhetoric and the injustice of progressive taxation.
On April 28, 2016, The Freeman published an all-new op-ed by Don Watkins and Yaron Brook, in which they argue that there’s no reason for pitting equality against liberty. That’s because the only equality that matters is political equality.
On April 14, 2016, Don Watkins was interviewed on FTR Radio’s In Deep with Michelle Ray. In this interview, Equal Is Unfair co-author Don Watkins talks about the anti-inequality narrative about the American dream, the benign nature of economic inequality in a free society, the war on upward mobility and the scapegoating of businessmen.
On April 14, 2016, The Federalist published an all-new op-ed by Don Watkins, in which he argues that the campaign against economic inequality is often motivated by a particularly vicious prejudice, namely “the demonization and dehumanization of the successful.” What makes this prejudice so inexcusable? How does it manifest itself?
In this episode of The Yaron Brook Show, originally aired on AM 560 The Answer on April 9, 2016, Yaron Brook talks about an Atlantic article on “total inequality” and whether it makes any sense to conflate various socio-economic problems with economic inequality.