He was home schooled in West Virginia until high school and is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College (where he was a Truman Scholar and a member of the Class of 1997), and Yale Law School (Class of 2001). After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Pierre N. Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York. He also serves on the editorial advisory board of the Ethics & International Affairs. He has been a fellow at the New America Foundation, a think tank that has been described as radical centrist in orientation.
Our “POOR” are better off than most other nations middle classes.
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
~Aristotle
One of the worst forms of stupidity is believing equal opportunity means equal results.
The worst form of stupidity is voting to make equal results mandated by law.
Teaching these things as truth takes stupidity deep into the danger zone.
Chelsea Clinton, check your privilege.
He lost me on the first sentence. "Egalitarian" is a term applied to socialist societies, not the United States of America. Liberals are always missing the distinction between equal opportunity as opposed to equal outcomes.
Jedediah, you ignorant slut, the conflict is not between equality and inequality, it’s between liberty and equality. Nowhere in our founding principles can collectivism be found. That’s Marx’s Das Capital your thinking of.
He's right.
Black people are more equal than me. Their leaders can commit felonies and treason and suffer no consequences. Those that are inclined to riot receive little pushback. They can make martyrs of brazen thugs like Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.
Latin people are more equal than me. They can cross the border with impunity, receiving housing, medical care, and education for free.
Indeed, some Americans are more equal than others.
I think I am going to convert to being a libtard. Then nothing will ever be my fault ever again.
The libs think we have inequality, yet they insist on importing Mexico’s dregs, it can only get worse.
So true! Why, once upon a time, not too long ago, people who sat around engaging in mental masturbation instead of critical thinking leading to productive action would have starved.
some of us are more equal because we are old and wise
Why some smart Americans believe really stupid stuff...
Economic inequality— ... —has reached some of its highest levels ever
This is a statement that could only be made a a profoundly ignorant person. I see that the writer is a Duke professor of law, but he is profoundly ignorant of history if he thinks that US economic inequality even approaches that of antiquity up to the middle stages of the Industrial Revolution.
The fellow is purdy stupid if you ask me.
I just wonder how JP Morgon compared to the poor in his time. After all, Morgan bailed the US Government out at one time.
Comparing the rich to the poor is an insufficient measure anyway. It would be better to talk about how many people have been able to move up the ladder from poor to middle class and so forth, and then compare that to other countries to see which one has the most upward mobility.