Dan Ariely on the “Irrationality” of American inequality
Dan Ariely, of Predictably Irrational fame, has news for the presidential campaign: from the standpoint of fairness and equality, the vast majority of American voters (90-plus percent) would rather be living in Sweden. Almost none of us — in a blind test — would choose the society we’re living in.
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Jeanette Winterson: What it Takes, in Letters and Life
Jeanette Winterson is the real thing — on the page, in life’s rough and tumble, and in our quick forty-minute feast of gab… I’m pinching myself and thinking: this could be Charlotte Bronte I’m sitting with, or George Eliot.
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Tim Snyder and Tony Judt: another narrative for Campaign 2012
Timothy Snyder, a rising-star historian at Yale, is turning up the heat on his friend Tony Judt’s parting sermons about “social democracy.” We are making of Tony Judt’s last work “a catalog of the malaise” in the land…
