Word: redistributionism
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Right-wing columnists like Charles Krauthammer [ESSAY, Sept. 22] have two essential responses to critics of President Bush's policies: 1) You're unpatriotic; 2) you're mad. In his commentary, Krauthammer doesn't indict me on the first count, but he does lump me in with a crowd of...
More in Sadness than Anger Right-wing columnists like Charles Krauthammer [Sept. 22] have two essential responses to critics of President George W. Bush's policies: 1) you're unpatriotic; 2) you're mad. In his commentary, Krauthammer doesn't indict me on the first count, but he does lump...
At this point, you might be questioning my apologist tone. After all, plenty of people own iPods, and plenty of people love gadgets. Well, I’m apologizing because I am a leftist, because I believe in redistribution of wealth, because I am philosophically opposed to hedonism at the...
In the excerpt from his book, Walter Isaacson envisions having a beer with Ben Franklin and discussing George Bush's foreign policy. I imagine that Franklin, an icon of democracy--and confirmed opponent of aristocracy and hereditary rule--would scathingly denounce the Administration's imperial ambitions and its upward redistribution...
Now, after shrinking 35 percent in five years, Zimbabwe’s economy will plummet another 10 percent this year alongside exponentially rising inflation predicted to reach 500 percent by year’s end. Because of land seizure and redistribution, agricultural production has dropped off by 67 percent, leaving...