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A New Birth of Outrage
“Where’s the outrage?” the virtuous and moral Bill Bennett famously asked in his 1999 book, The Death of Outrage. Well, outrage is back, but I don’t think it’s what Mr. Bennett had in mind when he documented the moral failures … Continue reading
Pizzigati’s Wake Up Call
When Sam Pizzigati’s Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality That Limits Our Lives was first published in 2004, the audience that the book found might well have been considered “The Choir.” There were some rumblings in the distance … Continue reading