{"id":8459,"date":"2013-10-01T13:37:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T13:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/01\/around-the-web\/"},"modified":"2013-10-01T13:37:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T13:37:44","slug":"around-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/01\/around-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mona Charen on Stephen Hawking<\/a>.  Proves that a great physicist can be a moral idiot.<\/span><\/p>\n

College student forced to undergo<\/a> 'diversity training.'  Liberal fascism at taxpayer expense.  Related: A Diversity Paradox for Immigration Expansionists<\/a>.  Bilingual Education and the Left's Diversity Fetish<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Victor Davis Hanson, Obama: Transforming America<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Robert Samuelson, Here Comes the Spoils Society<\/a>.  Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n

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There are two ways to become richer. One is to provide more goods and  services; that's economic growth. The other is to snatch someone else's wealth  or income; that's the spoils society. In a spoils society, economic success  increasingly depends on who wins countless distributional contests: not who  creates wealth but who controls it. But this can be contentious. Winners  celebrate; losers fume.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, the two systems have long coexisted — and always will. All modern  societies chase growth; all redistribute income and wealth. Some shuffling is  visible and popular. Until now, that's been the case with America's largest  transfer, which is from workers to retirees through Social Security and  Medicare. In 2012, this exceeded $1 trillion. Still, for the nation, the  relevant question is whether productive behavior (generating economic growth) is  losing ground to predatory behavior (grabbing existing wealth and income). There  are good reasons to think it is.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Mona Charen on Stephen Hawking.  Proves that a great physicist can be a moral idiot. College student forced to undergo 'diversity training.'  Liberal fascism at taxpayer expense.  Related: A Diversity Paradox for Immigration Expansionists.  Bilingual Education and the Left's Diversity Fetish. Victor Davis Hanson, Obama: Transforming America Robert Samuelson, Here Comes the Spoils Society.  Excerpt: … Continue reading “Around the Web”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}