by Erik Kain on October 21, 2011
A number of commenters pushed back against me when I argued that taxing the rich, without fixing other injustices within our political system, would not be enough. Darren G warned that I was arguing “a straw man.” The recent poll published in the WSJ showed that 30% of the OWS protesters were motivated by ” [...]
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by Erik Kain on September 26, 2011
It’s funny how history repeats itself. Conor Williams has an excerpt from Michael Kozin’s The Populist Persuasion up at his blog describing the 1896 elections. The echoes of our own time are glaring: During the presidential campaign, the major parties fought, more pointedly than ever before, to control the symbols and definitions of patriotism. The [...]
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