On April 5, the Lewis & Clark Federalist Society hosted a public debate between Yaron Brook and Milo Petranovich on income inequality at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon.
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.
