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| Friday 26 April 2013 |
How to get filthy rich in Asia
Mohsin Hamid’s new novel, written as a self-help guide for Asians who want to make a killing in their new economies, casts light on the social impact of Asia’s breakneck growth.
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| Tuesday 16 April 2013 |
Modern Zionists: gatekeepers of what?
A new Israeli documentary shows that Zionism has lost its nationalist vigor and now plays the victim card.
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| Wednesday 30 January 2013 |
Inequality did not cause the crisis
ESSAY: Widening inequality in the US should be seen as a symptom rather than cause of today’s economic malaise.
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| Wednesday 19 December 2012 |
Inequality did not cause the crisis
Widening inequality in the US should be seen as a symptom, rather than a cause, of today's economic malaise.
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| Friday 30 November 2012 |
Why the rich want the
super-rich to be restrained
A new book critiquing the lives and antics of plutocrats reveals just how widespread the discomfort with rapid economic growth has become.
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| Friday 28 September 2012 |
The state is a bigger threat than the market
Michael Sandel’s What Money Can’t Buy has some useful insights, but its anti-market myopia blinds it to the corrosive impact of state intervention in our lives.
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| Friday 27 July 2012 |
How liberals fall into
the fairness trap
Political philospher John Tomasi’s insightful critique of the thought of John Rawls and the failings of modern liberalism fails to recognise that ‘fairness’ is antithetical to equality proper.
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| Friday 11 May 2012 |
The petty politics of the
anti-inequality brigade
ESSAY: Don’t be fooled by their egalitarian rhetoric - today’s equality campaigners simply dislike both the super-rich and ‘trailer trash’.
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| Friday 27 April 2012 |
Ordinary Americans don’t need the left’s pity
Thomas Frank’s belief that people aren’t revolting against capitalism because they’ve been duped by right-wing ideologues betrays an incredible disdain for the public.
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| Wednesday 18 April 2012 |
Inequality: a middle-class obsession
ESSAY: Unlike past warriors for equality, today’s campaigners simply dislike both the super-rich and ‘trailer trash’.
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| Friday 24 February 2012 |
Delving into the mind of the technocrat
Robert H Frank’s The Darwin Economy tells us little useful about the economy, but it does provide a frightening glimpse into the democracy-averse mindset of our rulers.
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| Friday 23 December 2011 |
A fixation with inequality, a poverty of understanding
Bankrupt Britain could have been a fascinating snapshot of the UK today if only its authors’ prejudices hadn’t got in the way.
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| Friday 9 December 2011 |
A fixation with inequality, a poverty of understanding
Bankrupt Britain could have been a fascinating snapshot of the UK if only its authors’ prejudices hadn’t got in the way.
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| Friday 25 November 2011 |
Things can only get better with economic growth
As a new book by Charles Kenny shows, human welfare has not improved over the past 200 years in spite of economic growth but because of it.
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| Friday 11 November 2011 |
Things can only get better with economic growth
As a new book shows, human welfare has not improved over the past 200 years in spite of economic growth but because of it.
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| Friday 20 May 2011 |
The Malthusians who masquerade as Marxists
The alternatives to the mythical creed of ‘neo-liberalism’ offered by David Harvey and other radical authors sound far, far worse.
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| Thursday 28 April 2011 |
The Malthusians who masquerade as Marxists
Both radical and mainstream authors now frequently attack ‘neo-liberalism’ and ‘free-market fundamentalism’. But their alternative to these largely mythical creeds would be far, far worse.
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| Wednesday 26 January 2011 |
Israel and Palestine: more divided than ever
Daniel Ben-Ami reports from the Holy Land on the key achievement of the so-called peace process: the intensified partitioning of Arabs and Jews.
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| Monday 20 December 2010 |
Freakonomics: more self-help than economics
The movie of the best-selling book is a popular taster of a worrying obsession with individual behaviour.
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| Friday 26 November 2010 |
Chasing after zombies
Anatole Kaletsky’s sweeping survey of the various eras of capitalism is ambitious. But in obsessing over so-called free-market fundamentalism he misses what is causing the current crisis.
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