On April 14, 2016, Don Watkins and Yaron Brook published an all-new article on Medium.com, in which they critically examine some of the assumptions underlying the anti-inequality perspective.
In this interview, Equal Is Unfair co-author Yaron Brook explains why economic equality is unfair, how economic inequality is good and what’s necessary to save the American Dream.
This Saturday, April 16, Equal Is Unfair co-author Don Watkins will guest host The Yaron Brook Show. Do the rich pay their “fair share” of taxes? What lessons can we draw from the Panama Papers controversy? What should we make of the “taxation is theft” meme? These are only some of the questions that Don will tackle.
On April 8, The Daily Wire published an exclusive interview with ARI fellow Don Watkins on the newly released Equal Is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality.
On April 6, The Blaze published an all-new op-ed by Don Watkins, in which he argues that the ideal of “equality of opportunity” is undesirable, as it would, among other things, mean: “[A]n unprecedented program of wealth redistribution, sapping affluent parents of every honestly earned dollar they’ve made so long as it could be used to give their child a “head start” in life.”
Don Watkins and Yaron Brook are currently on a tour promoting their newly released book, Equal Is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality in talks, panels, seminars and debates. So far, they have reached audiences in Chicago, New York City, Washington, DC and San Francisco.
Yesterday, Investor’s Business Daily published a new op-ed by Don Watkins and Yaron Brook, in which they argue, contra Thomas Piketty et al., that there’s nothing even remotely unfair with the wealth gap due to inheritances.
On April 4, 2016, Yaron Brook joined PBS’s Chicago Tonight to discuss Don and Yaron’s newly released book, Equal Is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality.
Leftists love citing countries like Sweden as proof that “democratic socialism” works. To set the record straight, I recently gave a campus talk, entitled “Sweden: Socialist Paradise or Egalitarian Nightmare?” at Emory University in Atlanta, GA.
